Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1366
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-717), Mr. P. recounts a forced march to Siedlce, then Ostro?e?ka in 1939; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to ?osice with his sister and brother-in-law en route to Soviet-occupied territory; working as a Soviet policeman after the war; deserting in April 1945; traveling to Lublin; obtaining false papers from an official; and traveling west to Katowice, then Wroc?aw.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Hershel P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-717), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • P., Hershel, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Jews -- Poland -- Łuków (Siedlce)
  • War crime trials -- Germany -- Munich.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Family.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Brothers.
  • Mothers and sons.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Soviet occupation.

Places

  • Katowice (Poland)
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Siedlce (Poland)
  • Brest (Belarus)
  • Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland)
  • Ostrołęka (Ostrołęka, Poland)
  • Łosice (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Łuków (Lublin, Poland)
  • Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Łuków ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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