Henry W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Henry W., who was born in Boryslaw, Poland in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending a Soviet high school with his sister; German invasion; local violence against Jews prior to German arrival; forced labor in the forests; his father's death from illness; his mother's Polish friend offering to hide them during round-ups, then her refusal to do so; hiding in the forest; being found while returning to town; his selection to remain when most were deported (his sister also remained); ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; conversion of the ghetto to a labor camp; he and others building a bunker in the woods; taking his sister there; being caught before he could escape; train transport to a camp; hospitalization; assistance from a nurse; transfer to Mauthausen in August 1944; slave labor in the quarry; transfer to Linz III; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; living in a displaced persons camp; studying in Vienna; and emigration to the United States in 1948.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- W., Henry, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Forests.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Boryslav.
- Brothers and sisters.
Places
- Boryslav (Ukraine)
- Boryslaw (Poland)
- Boryslaw ghetto.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Poland.
- Boryslav (Ukraine : Concentration camp)
- Linz III (Austria : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat