Larry L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Larry L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. He recalls ghettoization; extreme hunger; escape; living on the streets and stealing food; returning to the ghetto in 1942 to be with his family; fleeing with his sister during the Jewish uprising in 1943 (he never saw his parents and brother again); hiding in bunkers and apartments; separation from his sister; posing as a Catholic and working in Cze?stochowa and Kozlov; receiving assistance from Polish friends of his family; and liberation in January 1945. Mr. L. describes returning to Warsaw; finding his sister; living in a Jewish orphanage in Otwock; Zionist organizations which smuggled him to a displaced persons camp in Germany; an attempt at illegal emigration to Palestine; interdiction by the British and incarceration in Cyprus; entering Palestine in 1947; joining the Haganah, then the Israeli army; and marriage to an American in 1959. He reflects upon his sense of regret at never having been a child and the impact of the Holocaust on his personality.
Extent and Medium
4 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. This testimony may only be used for educational purposes. It may not be altered or edited without consent of the donor.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- L., Larry, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Haganah (Organization)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Orphanages.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Escapes.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Identification (Religion)
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Zionist organizations.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Otwock (Poland)
- Kozlov (Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Israel.
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Cyrus.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat