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Joseph H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4308) interviewed by Rik Hemmerijckx,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4308

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1922. He recalls moving to Brussels after middle school; attending an elite Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing briefly to France; working for the Red Cross; meeting members of the Resistance; working as a resistance courier; arrest in May 1944; incarceration in Antwerp; transfer to Buchenwald, then shortly thereafter to Dora; working in the hospital where he could help many other prisoners; transfer to Ellrich; public hanging of a prisoner who had cannibalized a corpse; transfer to Oranienberg; evacuation; liberation from a death march by United States troops; repatriation by the Red Cross; marriage in 1947; and taking over his father's business. Mr. H. discusses the prisoner hierarchy in camps. He shows photographs and documents.
Author/Creator: H., Joseph, 1922-
Published: Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 2002
Interview Date: July 2, 2002.
Locale: Belgium
Turnhout (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Cite As: Joseph H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4308). 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 (2 hr.,14 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hospitals in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons,Belgian. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Concentration camp inmates. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Cannibalism. Death marches. Belgium. Turnhout (Belgium) Brussels (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) H., Joseph,--1922- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Ellrich (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6709481
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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