Lore P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1614
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-728), Mrs. P. recounts putting children to work at AEG to save them; a public hanging of attempted escapees; a cousin being shot after going mad from starvation; and participating in a war crimes trial in Du?sseldorf. She shows documents.

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: Lore P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-728), 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., Lore, -- 1921-

Corporate Bodies

  • Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  • Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (Germany)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  • Childbirth in concentration camps.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forced labor.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Fathers and daughters.
  • Family.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • War crime trials -- Germany.
  • Child survivors.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Latvia -- Rīga.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Sabotage.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.

Places

  • Toruń (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Rīga (Latvia : Concentration camp)
  • Rīga ghetto.
  • Düsseldorf (Germany)
  • Israel.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Bydgoszcz (Poland)
  • Essen (Germany)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Germany.
  • Gelsenkirchen (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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