LEADER 05427cpd a2200673 a 4500001 6256149 005 20180530112753.0 008 030701s2000 ctu fre d 035 6256149 035 HVT-4247 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005104544 090 |bHVT-4247 100 1 V., Fernand, |d1909- 245 10 Fernand V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4247) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt and Patrice Van Laethem, |fFebruary 9 and February 10, 2000. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c2000. 300 2 videorecordings (5 hr., 12 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Fernand V., a Catholic, who was born in Ndjoko-Punda, Congo in 1909, one of three children of a Belgian man and a Congolese woman. He recounts his father's death in approximately 1911; his father's family bringing him to Belgium without his mother's permission (he never saw her or his siblings again); living with his father's sister in Uccle; German invasion in World War I; attending school; racist harassment; enlisting as a reserve cavalry officer; studying art; working in a bank and as a newspaper illustrator; marriage in 1937; his daughter's birth; military mobilization; German invasion; Belgian capitulation when his unit was in Bruges; demobilization; returning to Brussels; his son's birth in 1941; joining the underground; denouncement; hiding for two weeks; arrest in February 1943; solitary confinement in St. Gilles until September; receiving packages from his wife, including sketchbooks; drawing constantly; transfer to Essen, Esterwegen, then Bayreuth; forced labor; celebrating Christmas with other Belgians, including priests; transfer to Flossenbürg in March 1945; a privileged assignment drawing for a high-ranking prisoner; encountering Jewish prisoners; hospitalization; abandonment by the Germans; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; repatriation two weeks later; and reunion with his wife and children. Mr. V. discusses his strong faith and optimism; relations between prisoner groups; postwar meetings with other prisoners; not sharing his experiences with his children; visiting German camps with his wife; and the beautification of these sites creating a false impression. Mr. V.'s wife joins him at the end of the testimony and he shows his wartime drawings. 546 This testimony is in French. 540 The segments of this testimony with Fernand V.'s wife cannot be used for publication. 524 Fernand V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4247). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 V., Fernand, |d1909- 610 20 Esterwegen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028034 610 20 Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029616 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Belgian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Belgian. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zBelgium. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113865 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Concentration camp inmates. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000020 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 651 0 Congo. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004021097 651 0 Ndjoko-Punda (Congo) 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 651 0 Uccle (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82011732 651 0 Bruges (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018880 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 656 7 Artists. |2lcsh |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008276 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 693 24 St. Gilles (Prison) 693 24 Essen (Prison) 693 24 Bayreuth (Prison) 700 1 Rosenfeldt, Michel, |einterviewer. 700 1 Van Laethem, Patrice, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b6922171 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4247) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/rn3028ps25 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/