Nathan P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1164
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Nathan P., who was born in Germany in 1917 and raised in Izbica Lubelska, Poland, one of eight children. He recalls one brother's emigration to Argentina; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; a brother's deportation to Sobibor; escaping from Izbica with a brother, sister, her husband, and their two children; joining an Armia Krajowa (AK) partisan group in the forests; assignments killing German sympathizers and mining railroad tracks; hearing the AK intended to kill the Jews and Russians in their group; leaving with assistance from a Polish professor after the Russians had already been killed; living in bunkers in the forest with the professor's assistance; moving often to avoid detection; liberation in July 1944; living in Zamos?c?; encountering Polish antisemitism; living in Breslau, then Bergen-Belsen and Eschwege displaced persons camps; and emigration to the United States. Mr. P. discusses learning his parents were killed in a mass shooting the day after he left.

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

  • P., Nathan, -- 1917-

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Poland. -- Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Armia Krajowa. -- Nowogródzki Okręg.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Partisans.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Escapes.
  • Family.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • Bunkers.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Eschwege (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mass killings.
  • Hiding.
  • Forests.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Zamość (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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