Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Peter L., who was born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the second of two children. He recounts his assimilated family; attending a German school; his bar mitzvah but not in a synagogue (his father was an atheist); leaving school due to antisemitic harassment; learning to be a machinist; attending a Zionist school in Prague; living in an orphanage, then a Zionist dormitory; his school's closure; joining his family in the Třebíč ghetto; forced labor with his father in a nearby quarry; deportation with his family to Theresienstadt in May 1942; contacts with Fredy Hirsch; his sister sharing extra food (she worked in the kitchen); working outside the camp; smuggling food to share with family and friends; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; his sister's deportation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September 1944; separation from his father which continues to cause him pain; transfer to Kaufering in October; slave labor in a factory; transfer to Litoměřice; Czech prisoners and a civilian German worker giving them extra food; returning to Theresienstadt; abandonment by German guards; traveling to Prague; visiting his hometown (no one returned); serving in the Czech military; reunion with his sister; emigration to Israel; and marriage. Mr. L. discusses relations with POWs, the prisoner hierarchy, and his feelings in the camps.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2000
- Interview Date
- May 11 and June 15, 2000.
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Třebíč
Czechoslovakia
Jihlava (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Peter L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4175). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (5 hr., 15 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Bar mitzvah. Jews--Czech Republic--Třebíč. Orphanages--Czech Republic. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Mothers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Prisoners of war--Czech Republic. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Fathers and sons. Quarries and quarrying. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Czechoslovakia. Jihlava (Czech Republic) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) L., Peter,--1924- Hirsch, Fredy,--1916-1944. World Hashomer Hatzair. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Kaufering (Concentration camp) Litoměřice (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4919358
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4919358
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