Harry W. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0441
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Orekhovno, Poland. He recalls growing up in a family of five sisters and three brothers; participating in the Zionist organization, he-Haluts; draft into the Polish army in 1937; discharge in March and recall in July 1939; capture by Germans on September 19; transfer to jail in Ka?uszyn; release to a prisoner of war camp on October 25; transfer to Krems and other prisons in Germany; participating in a strike for equal treatment of Jewish prisoners; transfer to Gorlice; deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7)in January 1941; burying corpses; interrogations and beatings in a Radom prison; deportation to prisons in Germany including Tellingstedt and Hamborn; forced labor in a salt mine; and liberation by British troops on April 12, 1945. Mr. W. speaks of traveling with his friend to Bergen-Belsen; returning home; fleeing to Bergen-Belsen after harassment by Poles; and marriage in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in August 1946.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

  • W., Harry.

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Histadrut he-Haluts be-Polin.

Subjects

  • Zionist organizations.
  • Forced labor.
  • Draft -- Poland.
  • Prisoners of war -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Resistance.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Places

  • Orekhovno (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Gorlice (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Kałuszyn (Warsaw, Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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