Allen W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Allen W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1931. He recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his father and brother fleeing toward the Soviet zone while he and his mother went to I?z?a; all of them returning to Radom; anti-Jewish restrictions; his brother-in-law's killing; escaping from a deportation train; returning home with assistance from non-Jews; taking the identity of a person who had died; the transition of Radom from ghetto to camp; public executions; a forced march to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; transfer, with his father and brother to Vaihingen, then Unterriexingen; sharing food with each other; their transfer to Kochendorf; a death march to Dachau; receiving food from a German woman; train transport; abandonment by the guards; liberation by United States troops; moving with his brother to Garmisch; learning his sister and father had perished; reunion with his mother in November 1945; living in Prien displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1948. Mr. W. discusses sharing his experiences with his children and reluctance to travel to Germany.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- W., Allen, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Kochendorf (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Fathers and sons.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Brothers.
- Mothers and sons.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany)
- Radom ghetto.
- (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Iłża (Poland)
- Vaihingen (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Unterriexingen (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Prien am Chiemsee (Germany : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat