Henry E. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1250
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Henry E., who was born in 1919 in Krako?w, Poland, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending cheder; his father's death when he was nine; attending public school, then a Jewish high school; participating in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Lublin; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; a Pole hiding his mother during a selection; learning his brother and his children had been killed while in hiding; his sister's deportation with her children (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation; his deportation to P?aszo?w; public hangings; becoming emotionally numb; transfer to Dresden; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; a cousin and friend helping him on the death march to Theresienstadt in February 1945; liberation by Soviet troops in May; walking to Prague; hospitalization; reunion with his fiance?e; marriage; traveling to Plzen?, then Munich; and emigration to the United States. Mr. E. notes the murder of almost all his extended family; sharing his experiences with his children; attributing his survival to luck; and a recent visit to Krako?w.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

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