Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Louis E., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1923 to a religious family of four children. He describes childhood in an antisemitic atmosphere; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; Jewish police rounding up forced laborers; deportations; learning about gas chambers from an escapee; the shooting of his parents and grandmother on the way to a selection; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer with his brother to Bliżyn; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a Jewish policeman and a Pole; forced labor in Henrykowo; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Bliżyn and Trzebinia; the death march through the Beskids; transfer to Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen and Hamburg; and liberation from Sandbostel, where he had witnessed cannibalism by Soviet POWs, by British troops. Mr. E. recalls recovering with his brother in a hospital; living with him in Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; traveling via Hannover to Bergen-Belsen refugee camp; living in Bonn, Cologne, and Düsseldorf; and emigrating to the United States in 1949.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1983
- Interview Date
- October 30, 1983.
- Locale
- Poland
Kielce
Kielce (Poland)
Hannover (Germany)
Cologne (Germany)
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Bonn (Germany) - Cite As
- Louis E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-366). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 12 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Refugee camps.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Death marches. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Concentration camp inmates--Escapes. Jews--Poland--Kielce. Cannibalism. Brothers. Poland. Kielce (Poland) Hannover (Germany) Cologne (Germany) Düsseldorf (Germany) Bonn (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Louis,--1923- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Bliżyn (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Trzebinia (Concentration camp) Sandbostel (Concentration camp)
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/4317887
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4317887
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