Albert L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Albert L., who was born in Paris, France in 1929 to Polish immigrants. He recounts attending public school; their poverty; an assimilated life; going to a farm in central France with his school; his father enlisting in the French military; remaining at the farm; German invasion; returning to his mother in Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions; evading the July 16th round-up; his mother's arrest; staying on a farm until her release; his father's visit using false papers; his father moving to Pau; visiting his father; his father's arrest; staying with a non-Jewish friend of his father using false papers in fall 1943 (his mother returned to Paris); his return to Paris; attending private school under an assumed name; learning of his mother's deportation; liberation; his mother's return from Auschwitz and other camps in June 1945; learning of his father's death; and emigration to the United States in 1951.
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
- L., Albert, -- 1929-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Mothers and sons.
- Fathers and sons.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Child survivors.
Places
- France.
- Paris (France)
- Pau (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat