- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1933, the youngest of three children. He recalls German invasion; ghettoization in 1941; transfer to Płaszów in 1943; slave labor in factories; his brother arranging for him, their parents, and sister to be on Schindler's list; public execution of his brother; transfer with his family to Gross-Rosen, then Brünnlitz; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau with five other children and seven parents, including his father, cousin, and future brother-in-law; separation from his father (he never saw him again); assignment to a cleaning brigade; hiding with his cousin during evacuation; liberation; witnessing anti-Jewish violence by Poles while traveling; encountering his sister and future brother-in-law; traveling to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; reunion with his mother; joining Betar; his mother taking him off a train for illegal immigration to Israel; attending school; difficulties dealing with his mother's emotional problems resulting from his father's and brother's deaths; attending school; his bar mitzvah, which was painful due to memories of his father; emigration with his mother to the United States with assistance from HIAS; military draft in 1953; attending college; marriage; the births of three children; and working for New York City. Mr. F. notes most of his large extended family were killed in the Holocaust. He shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- F., Roman, 1933-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2009
- Interview Date
- January 5, 2009.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
- Cite As
- Roman F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4421). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
