Overview
- Summary
- Video testimony of Rabbi Abraham K., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1918. Rabbi K. describes his family; moving to Sosnowiec in 1942; formation of the ghetto; and deportation to Auschwitz with his fiancee's family. He relates conditions in Birkenau; interaction with other prisoners; being sick with typhus; selections; and being chosen for a special detail. Rabbi K. recalls transfer to Sachsenhausen, where forged English currency was inspected and sorted for a variety of uses by the German government. Rabbi K. recounts incidents of religious observance; working on a Gestapo archive which contained records of property confiscated from Jews in Paris, Belgium and Holland; and correspondence about events in Czechoslovakia. He tells of transfer to Mauthausen through Dresden; finding wheat on the way which they saved to bake matzo on Passover; liberation by the Americans in Ebensee; reunion with his fiancee; return to Katowice; and emigration to Israel.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 12, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Katowice (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) - Cite As
- Rabbi Abraham K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-303). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
-
This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 49 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Forced labor. Money--Forgeries. Counterfeits and counterfeiting. Poland. Katowice (Poland) Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) K., Abraham,--1918- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
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/967617
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt967617
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