Arthur K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1299
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Arthur K., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1920 to a family of ten children. He describes growing up in a Jewish neighborhood; antisemitic incidents; his father's death in 1934; German invasion; working in the ghetto kitchen; separation from his family for transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in May 1942; forced labor at the HASAG ammunition factory; psychological support from his friends upon learning his family had been deported to Treblinka; train transfer to Cze?stochowa, then to Buchenwald in 1944; assistance from a Polish political prisoner; volunteering to work in Flossenbu?rg, hoping to find family members; train evacuation to Mauthausen in April 1945; and liberation. Mr. K. recounts returning to Kielce with friends; moving to Gleiwitz; fleeing to Passau with his wife after the pogrom in Kielce; and emigration to the United States in 1949.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • K., Arthur, -- 1920-

Corporate Bodies

  • Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  • Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
  • Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
  • Częstochowa (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Kielce.
  • Forced labor.
  • Friendship.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Gleiwitz (Germany)
  • Kielce ghetto.
  • Passau (Germany)
  • Gliwice (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Kielce (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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