- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hersz D., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1908. He recalls attending a German school; moving to Belgium with his parents in 1926; working as a painter in Jette; marriage; his daughter's birth; his parents' deportation; taking his daughter to be hidden in the countryside; denunciation by a neighbor; deportation with his wife to Malines, then Auschwitz/Birkenau; immediate separation from her (she was gassed); transfer to Jaworzno; obtaining information for the camp resistance through his privileged position; public hanging of ten men who had attempted an escape through a tunnel; liberation by Soviet troops; repatriation; reclaiming his daughter in Arlon; and marriage to a woman whose husband was killed in the camps. Mr. D. notes still having nightmares about the camps.
- Author/Creator
- D., Hersz, 1908-
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1995
- Interview Date
- September 18, 1995.
- Locale
- Częstochowa (Poland)
Poland
Jette (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Arlon (Belgium)
- Cite As
- Hersz D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4017). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Thanassekos, Yannis, interviewer.
Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
This testimony is difficult to understand. It is suggested that researchers use the accompanying partial transcript.
