David F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1893
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Sosnowiec in 1924. He recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in Zionist activities; German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jewish men including his father and uncles; and volunteering for forced labor to fill his family's quota. Mr. F. describes road building, rail work and other assignments in Koch?owice, Brande, Gross Masselwitz, Sebezh, Novosokolniki, Sakrau, Annaberg, and Marksta?dt (building a Krupp factory), always with his friend Harry; kindness from a German worker; arrival of his father; transfer to Fu?nfteichen; transfer to Gross Rosen (separated from his father), Buchenwald (separated from Harry), Bisingen, and Spaichingen; a three-week death march; disappearance of the guards near Wissen; and finding United States troops to help them. He recalls living in Garmisch and Feldafing; reunions with a cousin, Harry, and two sisters; marriage; living in Munich and Schongau; futile efforts to find his sister's baby, who had been left with a woman in Poland; reporting the camp official responsible for his father's death; the births of two children; emigrating to the United States; locating another sister in the Soviet Union; and having a memorial erected at an unmarked mass grave.

Extent and Medium

3 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

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