Martin F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martin F., who was born in Ulano?w, Poland in 1921. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; his father's emigration to the United States; brief Soviet occupation; deportation to Belzec in spring 1940; slave labor digging ditches; release home six months later; deportation to Budzyn?; slave labor in a Heinkel airplane factory; a public hanging; transfer to Rzeszo?w, P?aszo?w, then Flossenbu?rg with Heinkel co-workers; improved conditions after transfer to Colmar; transfer to Oranienburg, then Watenstedt with Heinkel co-workers; slave labor in a munitions factory; Allied bombings; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; receiving aid packages from the Joint; transfer to Ludwigslust; liberation by Canadian troops from a train transport in May 1945; traveling to Warsaw, Krako?w, then Gliwice; traveling with the Jewish Brigade to Vienna, then Cremona in 1946; living in a displaced persons camp for over a year; receiving documents from the Red Cross; contact with his sister; emigration to the United States in March 1947; reunion with his father; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. F. discusses details of camp life, including severe hardships; his mother and other sister being killed; and learning that he and his family had been issued United States visas in March 1939, but never received them.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- F., Martin, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Budzyń (Concentration camp)
- Belzec (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke.
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Ludwigslust (Concentration camp)
- Colmar (Concentration camp)
- Watenstedt (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Mutual aid.
- Soviet occupation.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Cremona (Italy)
- Rzesźow (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Ulanów (Poland)
- Gliwice (Poland)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat