LEADER 07430cpd a2200841 a 4500001 4298310 005 20180530115138.0 008 980731s1993 ctu heb d 035 HVT-3577 035 4298310 035 |9FLX2605YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005109432 090 |bHVT-3577 100 1 P., Yakov, |d1930- 245 10 Yakov P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3577) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Nathan Beyrak, |fNovember 5, November 23, December 7, and December 20, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 4 videorecordings (8 hr., 4 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Yakov P., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, an only child. He recounts living in Čadca; attending Jewish school; participating in Gordonyah; his mother's arrest as a communist; he and his father visiting her in prison at Ilava; his father securing her release; her escape to Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions; being warned of deportations in 1942; their relatives ignoring the warning (they were all killed); escaping with his father to Zvolen; illegally entering Hungary when his father bribed a train engineer; joining his mother in Budapest; being hidden in an institution for developmentally delayed children (his parents hid elsewhere); assisting the caregivers who knew he was Jewish; visits from his parents; his father instructing him in early 1943 to report to the police, due to a change in the laws; arrest; release to his Hungarian grandfather as a legal foreign citizen; living with his grandparents in Mukacheve beginning in April 1943; attending school; German invasion in March 1944; arrest, interrogations and beatings; deportation with his grandparents to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May; separation from them upon arrival; transfer to a children's block; assignment as a translator for a doctor becasue he spoke many languages; the doctor hiding him during selections; and hospitalization. 520 8 Mr. P. recalls transfer to unofficially join his childhood caregiver, who was a privileged prisoner in Canada Kommando; having no official work assignment; the prisoners assigning him to smuggle goods to civilian workers in exchange for food; rebuffing sexual advances by high prisoner officials; learning of the prisoner revolt; transfer to Oranienburg; a dog attacking him; hospitalization for three months; treatment by non-Jewish prisoner doctors; transfer to Mauthausen in January 1945; a death march to Gunskirchen; observing corpses mutilated due to cannibalism; abandonment by the guards; walking to Wels; obtaining food from empty houses; transfer to a hospital in Hörsching by United States troops; returning to Budapest six weeks later via Melk and Sopron; learning his mother had been killed escaping from Soviet soldiers who were trying to rape her one day after liberation; reunion with his father in Bratislava; their return to Čadca; working in his father's law firm; attending gymnasium in Žilina; antisemitic harassment; joining Gordonyah, intending to emigrate to Israel; assisting others do so for a year; and his emigration in 1949. Mr. P. notes his loss of belief in God due to his experiences. 540 This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes without prior approval of the donor. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Yakov P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3577). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 P., Yakov, |d1930- 610 20 Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006708 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Oranienburg (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029526 610 20 Mauthausen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604 610 20 Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068529 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Sexual harassment. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120735 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Cannibalism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019617 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Ostrava (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50062260 651 0 Čadca (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80041793 651 0 Ilava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90006287 651 0 Zvolen (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81128000 651 0 Budapest (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691 651 0 Mukacheve (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88215715 651 0 Wels (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82039838 651 0 Hörsching (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011095328 651 0 Melk (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80106654 651 0 Sopron (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80065894 651 0 Bratislava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093362 651 0 Žilina (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83067607 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Concentration camps |xRevolts. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 693 24 Canada Kommando. 700 1 Beyrak, Nathan, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677788 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3577) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/sn00z7186p 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/