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a| HVT-4011
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b| HVT-4011
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a| B., René,
d| 1916-
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a| René B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4011)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt and Hessel Daalder,
f| September 20, 1995.
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a| Brussels, Belgium :
b| Fondation Auschwitz,
c| 1995.
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a| 1 videorecording (3 hr., 31 min.) :
b| col.
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a| Videotape testimony of René B., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Belgium in 1916. He recalls apprenticeship as a butcher; military service for a year beginning in 1936 in Tournai; marriage; military recall in 1939; capture by the Germans in Louvain; transport to a POW camp in Cologne; forced labor doing farm work; transfer to several POW camps; separation of Flemish and Walloon Belgian prisoners; removal of Jewish prisoners (they did not know their fate); receiving packages from the United States, England, and the Red Cross; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Odesa, Gdańsk, and Marseille; a warm welcome; divorce and remarriage; excommunication due to his divorce; joining the socialist party; and working as a rural constable. Mr. B. notes speaking freely about his experiences; learning of concentration camps after the war; continued hostility toward Germans; and his strong Belgian patriotism.
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a| This testimony is in French.
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e| 2 copies:
b| Betacam SP dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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a| René B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4011). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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a| B., René,
d| 1916-
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a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
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a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
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a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Belgian.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917
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a| Prisoners of war
z| Germany.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107235
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a| Belgium.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041
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a| Tournai (Belgium)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81119791
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a| Louvain (Belgium)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003348
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a| Odesa (Ukraine)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139057
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a| Gdańsk (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004524
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a| Marseille (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108882
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a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
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a| Postwar experiences.
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a| Danzig (Germany)
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a| Rosenfeldt, Michel,
e| interviewer.
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a| Daalder, Hessel,
e| interviewer.
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a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
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b| 4975836
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y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.4011)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/7p8tb0xv3t
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y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/
