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Abe and David F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-138)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-138

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of brothers Abe F., who was born in a small town outside Warsaw, Poland in 1929, and David F., who was born in 1928. They relate the outbreak of war in 1939; expulsion from school; formation of the ghetto; the Judenrat supplying people for forced labor; starvation leading to food smuggling; deportation, despite their belief they would not be taken due to their young ages, to a camp where they assembled gun parts for almost two years; and two youths who were tortured to death for assembling their own gun from parts on which they worked. They describe transfer to Auschwitz, partially on foot; selection for work; transfer to a stone quarry in Vinnen, Germany; horrendous work conditions; survival strategy of doing the least possible work; Abe's hospitalization due to typhus; a death march to an area outside of Stuttgart; transfer to Dachau; transport on trains to the Munich area; and a representative of the Swiss Red Cross providing food.
Author/Creator: F., Abe, 1929-
Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
Interview Date: 1979.
Locale: Poland
Vinnen (Germany)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Cite As: Abe and David F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-138). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hour, 3 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Concentration camp inmates Escapes.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Brothers. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Vinnen (Germany) Stuttgart (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. F., Abe,--1929- F., David,--1928- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (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/992498
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:45:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt992498

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