Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Herman W., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927, one of five children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; his older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three-week ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; remaining with his father and uncle; transfer to Wolfsberg a few days later; slave labor on the railway; a foot injury resulting from wearing clogs; hospitalization; the prisoner doctor hiding him during selections; sharing extra food with his father and uncle; a death march and train transfer to Ebensee; Czechs throwing food to them; his father's hospitalization and death; liberation by United States troops; separation from his uncle (he never saw him again); traveling to Prague; hospitalization; reunion with his brother; returning home; reunion with two sisters and an uncle; neighbors refusing to return family possessions; living in Wasserburg and Munich displaced persons camps; emigration to the United States in 1948; and marriage in 1954.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
- Interview Date
- March 22, 2007.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Uz︠h︡horod
Czechoslovakia
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Prague (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Herman W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4394). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 8 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Aid by non-Jews.
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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Uz︠h︡horod. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Fathers and sons. Death marches. Refugee camps. Czechoslovakia. Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) W., Herman,--1927- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/7847686
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7847686
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