Louis E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Louis E., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1923 to a religious family of four children. He describes childhood in an antisemitic atmosphere; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; Jewish police rounding up forced laborers; deportations; learning about gas chambers from an escapee; the shooting of his parents and grandmother on the way to a selection; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer with his brother to Bliz?yn; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a Jewish policeman and a Pole; forced labor in Henrykowo; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Bliz?yn and Trzebinia; the death march through the Beskids; transfer to Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen and Hamburg; and liberation from Sandbostel, where he had witnessed cannibalism by Soviet POWs, by British troops. Mr. E. recalls recovering with his brother in a hospital; living with him in Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; traveling via Hannover to Bergen-Belsen refugee camp; living in Bonn, Cologne, and Du?sseldorf; and emigrating to the United States in 1949.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Louis, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
- Bliżyn (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Trzebinia (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Sandbostel (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kielce.
- Cannibalism.
- Brothers.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Bonn (Germany)
- Düsseldorf (Germany)
- Henrykowo (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Kielce ghetto.
- Hamburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Hannover (Germany)
- Cologne (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat