LEADER 07001cpd a2200865 a 4500001 4298844 005 20180530115138.0 008 980731s1996 ctu ger d 035 HVT-3732 035 4298844 035 |9FLX3150YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005105061 090 |bHVT-3732 100 1 B., Werner, |d1924- 245 10 Werner B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3732) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Annette Leo and Eva Bauer, |fOctober 13, 1996. 260 Potsdam, Germany : |bMoses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, |c1996. 300 1 videorecording (6 hr., 37 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Werner B., who was born in Oberhausen, Germany in 1924. He recounts his family's move to Berlin in 1929; their strong German patriotism; his parents' divorce in 1932; living with his maternal grandmother in Pila; antisemitic harassment at school; his bar mitzvah; attending a Jewish boarding school in Szczecin; arrest of all the teachers on Kristallnacht; his mother's emigration with her second husband and daughter to Shanghai; joining a hachsharah; returning to Berlin; working in a factory; his father's suicide; planning to escape to Switzerland in 1943; traveling to Munich; arrest near the Swiss border; incarceration in Waldshut, then Karlsruhe; interrogations, beatings, and solitary confinement; transfer to prisons in Frankfurt, Bautzen, and Breslau; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor doing construction; a high death rate; friendship with an influential German prisoner; reassignment through his friend, caring for dogs owned by high officials; working in Kommandant Höss's villa; Höss saving him from punishment when he was accused of stealing food; a death march to Pless in January 1945, then train transport to Mauthausen; transfer to Melk; slave labor constructing an underground factory; a brutal beating; transfer to Ebensee; observing cannibalism; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Linz, then Vienna; living in the Enns displaced persons camp supported by UNRRA; relocating to Munich; marriage; his daughter's birth; working for the Joint; joining his mother in San Francisco in 1948; his son's birth; military draft; divorce; returning to Germany in 1959; marriage; and the death of his second wife. Mr. B. discusses camp hierarchies; his loss of all opportunities, including education; his sense of not belonging in the United States and not even in Germany, despite “feeling German”; retaining his religious faith; recently visiting Auschwitz with German youth; and persistent painful memories and nightmares, particularly of Höss and the Auschwitz guard Kaduk. He shows documents. 546 This testimony is in German. 524 Werner B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3732). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 B., Werner, |d1924- 600 10 Höss, Rudolf, |d1900-1947. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83193031 600 10 Kaduk. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80047347 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Mauthausen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604 610 20 Melk (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028754 610 20 Ebensee (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97023096 610 20 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097409 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 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 Bar mitzvah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761 650 0 Kristallnacht, 1938. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034487 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 Cannibalism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019617 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 651 0 Oberhausen (Düsseldorf, Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80107058 651 0 Berlin (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972 651 0 Piła (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80158347 651 0 Szczecin (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80163477 651 0 Linz (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79072796 651 0 Vienna (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018895 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Crystal Night, 1938. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Pless (Poland : Concentration camp) 693 24 Waldshut (Prison) 693 24 Karlsruhe (Prison) 693 24 Frankfurt am Main (Prison) 693 24 Bautzen (Prison) 693 24 Breslau (Prison) 700 1 Leo, Annette, |d1948- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92038732 700 1 Bauer, Eva, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84218908 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4678342 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3732) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/m32n58cs9z 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/