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August H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4302) interviewed by Rik Hemmerijckx,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4302

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of August H., a Catholic, who was born in Lebbeke, Belgium in 1921, one of nine children. He recalls attending Catholic schools; fleeing south with one brother during the German invasion; returning home; joining a small cell of the Resistance; providing information about train traffic and schedules; working in a factory in Opwijk; arrest; interrogation in Ghent for a week; deportation with his brother to Bochum; their transfer two months later to a prison in Hameln, then a year later to Gross Strehlitz; forced labor making chalk; separation from his brother upon transfer to Gross-Rosen in November 1944; first experiencing the hardships of a concentration camp; feeling he had lost his humanity; transfer in January 1945; liberation by Soviet troops in April; traveling to Leipzig, then returning to Lebbeke; learning his brother had died in Mauthausen immediately after liberation; and recuperating for a few months in a rest home. Mr. H. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences and not sharing them with his children so they would not have anxieties.
    Author/Creator
    H., August, 1921-
    Published
    Lebbeke, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 2002
    Interview Date
    March 3, 2002.
    Locale
    Belgium
    Lebbeke (Belgium)
    Opwijk (Belgium)
    Ghent (Belgium)
    Leipzig (Germany)
    Cite As
    August H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4302). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Hemmerijckx, Rik, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Dutch.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Dutch
    Copies
    2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 15 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6709359
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt6709359

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