Eitan P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eitan P., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He recalls participation in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; German invasion; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother upon arrival; slave labor with his brothers; seeing his father; learning his father was selected for death; the death march to Gleiwitz; train transportation to Dora/Nordhausen; a Hungarian soldier (a former neighbor) saving his brother; public hangings; slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen (he never saw his brothers again); volunteering to burn corpses for extra food; and liberation by British troops. Mr. P. describes encountering the Jewish Brigade; learning in Khust that no family members had survived; traveling to Brivio to prepare to emigrate to Palestine; empathic villagers listening to his experiences; illegal emigration from Pisa to Palestine; incarceration by the British in Cyprus and ?Atlit; military service in the Israel-Arab War; pride in bearing arms despite Israeli scorn for survivors; marriage to a survivor; heightened memories during the Eichmann trial; and visiting Germany despite his discomfort.
Extent and Medium
3 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
People
- P., Eitan, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- No'ar ha-Tsiyoni (Organization)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Death marches.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Postwar effects.
- Zionist organizations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Fathers and sons.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- ĘťAtlit (Israel)
- Cyprus.
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Pisa (Italy)
- Brivio (Italy)
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat