Bernard T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bernard T., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to a family of six children. He recalls family life; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling food; his inability to save his mother, sisters, and three-year-old brother from deportation in 1942 (he never saw them again); his deportation through Lublin to Budzyn?; working in the fields, then at an airplane factory; working in airplane factories in Mielec and Weliczka; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; an unsuccessful escape attempt; transfer to Dachau; escape from a death march; hiding in a barn; liberation; watching survivors dying from their inability to digest food; traveling to Munich; working in a kitchen for four years in Frankfurt am Main; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. T. discusses the importance of taking chances to his survival.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- T., Bernard, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- FlossenbuĚrg (Concentration camp)
- Wieliczka (Concentration camp)
- BudzynĚ (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Death marches.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
Places
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Mielec (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat