- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abraham L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recounts his father's scholarship; his family's focus on education; rabbinical ordination at age nineteen; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; slave labor; a Jewish engineer giving him a desk job; his father's selection in 1942 (he never saw him again); his mother's hospitalization; his sister clandestinely retrieving their mother; deportation with his mother and siblings to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from his sister and mother; transfer with his brother ten days later to Altenhammer; his brother sharing food from his privileged kitchen job; an SS beating resulting in permanent loss of vision in one eye; transfer to Dora in January 1945; slave labor building tunnels; public hangings; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in April; liberation by British troops; Russian prisoners killing Germans for revenge; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp for three months; moving with his brother to Hannover; working as a reporter; pressing charges against his landlord for antisemitism; organizing cultural events for the Jewish community including a lecture by Leo Baeck; marriage to a survivor; and reporting on the Nuremburg trials. Mr. L. discusses Hermann Göring's testimony; earning his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago; and visiting Poland with his wife in 1974.
- Author/Creator
- L., Abraham, 1920-
- Published
- Evanston, Ill. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2003
- Interview Date
- November 4, 2003.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Germany
Łódź (Poland)
Nuremberg (Germany)
Hannover (Germany)
- Cite As
- Abraham L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4263). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
