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Alexander A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3642)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3642

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recounts his father's military draft immediately before the war; his capture by the Germans; a one hour visit when he was en route to Germany as a POW; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; non-Jews assisting their move to Mogiła to avoid ghettoization; forced relocation to the Weiliczka ghetto; his grandmother's hospitalization (he never saw her again); relocating to the Kraków ghetto with assistance from German soldiers; slave labor at an airport; his mother hiding his twin sisters with friends in Mogiła; train deportation with his mother; escaping from the train; removing the Jewish star and traveling to Kraków; assistance from family friends; retrieving his sisters; smuggling them into the ghetto, then hiding them in Monastyrysʹka; and continuing to work at the airport.
Author/Creator: A., Alexander, 1928-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
Interview Date: April 21, 1994.
Locale: Poland
Wieliczka
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Mogiła (Poland)
Monastyrysʹka (Ukraine)
Cite As: Alexander A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3642). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (3 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Wieliczka. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Forced labor. Escapes. Brothers and sisters. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Mogiła (Poland) Monastyrysʹka (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) A., Alexander,--1928-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298552
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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