Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Benjamin V., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1936, one of four children. He recounts his parents living in Palestine in the 1930s; their return to Holland; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-up to a synagogue; deportation with his family to Westerbork; hunger and lack of sanitation; his father sabotaging deportation lists when he cleaned the offices; celebrating Hanukkah; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; looking for extra food; his father obtaining school books for him; his mother making matzo and his father reciting the Haggadah in their barrack; sharing bread he found with his father; receiving two Red Cross packages; piles of corpses; boarding a train; Allied bombings; abandonment by the Germans in Zielitz; liberation; recuperating in Hillersleben; hospitalization; returning to Amsterdam; and encountering antisemitism. Mr. V. notes he and his siblings survived because of his parents' Palestine documents; feeling like he entered a “vacuum” after liberation; physical impairments resulting from concentration camps; and continuing to be orthodox.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
- Interview Date
- January 3, 2007.
- Locale
- Netherlands
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Zielitz (Germany)
Hillersleben (Germany) - Cite As
- Benjamin V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4370). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 15 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Aid by non-Jews. - 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. Mothers and sons. Fathers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Brothers. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Netherlands. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Zielitz (Germany) Hillersleben (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) V., Benjamin,--1936- Westerbork (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7848162
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:29:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7848162
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