LEADER 06072cpd a2200721 a 4500001 4469430 005 20180604133218.0 008 980731s1997 ctu heb d 035 4469430 035 HVT-3881 035 |9FMQ5713YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005105016 090 |bHVT-3881 100 1 R., Fishel, |d1917- 245 10 Fishel R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3881) |h[videorecording], |fJanuary 9 and January 16, 1997. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1997. 300 2 videorecordings (6 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Fishel R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917, the fifth of eight children. He recounts studying to be an engraver until age sixteen; a factory job in that trade; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; a failed attempt to flee with his brother; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; volunteering for work in Germany six months later to help support his family; deportation to Brójce; slave labor constructing roads; hospitalization in Świebodzin; visits from camp friends; giving them his extra food; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, also doing road construction; working for local farmers and as the camp doctor's aide; transfer in mid-1942 to Eberswalde; improved conditions; assignments in the laundry and as a doctor's assistant; receiving letters from home; prisoners of war sharing potatoes; French POWs offering to hide him; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1943, then two days later to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; he and a friend obtaining extra soup with gold they had found; trading found goods with Polish civilian workers for food and medication; a beating when he was caught; frequent public hangings; learning his family had arrived in Auschwitz; transfer to Gleiwitz; train transport to Buchenwald; Czechs throwing them food en route; transfer two weeks later to Langenstein; many prisoners being wounded in an Allied bombing en route; slave labor in a quarry for a month; a death march; escaping with a friend; assistance from local Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; retrieving family photographs from his destroyed home; reunion with two sisters; meeting his future wife; moving to the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage; his uncle in England arranging their emigration to join him; and emigration to join his wife's mother and brother in Israel three years later. Mr. R. notes only he, two sisters, and two uncles survived from his large extended family. He shows photographs. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Fishel R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3881). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP master; |band 1/2 in. 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Farben. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4855557 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3881) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/m61bk16x9b 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/