Nathan K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nathan K., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1923 to a family of six children. He recounts a happy family life before the German occupation in 1939; deportation to Lublin in 1940; forced labor digging trenches in Ciechano?w; escaping with an inmate to the Soviet border; their arrest by the Soviets; imprisonment for eleven months in Lv?iv and Berestechko; three months in Zolochiv prison; transport to Starobels?k; working on the barges in Vorkuta; being wounded while serving in the Soviet army; and his imprisonment until 1948. Mr. K. describes returning to Radom in 1948; learning no one from his family had survived; marriage; working as a tailor in ?o?dz?; emigration with his wife and son to Israel in 1957; learning his sisters had, in fact, survived and lived in Baltimore; emigrating to the United States; and his subsequent life.
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
- K., Nathan, -- 1923-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Draft -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
Places
- Lublin (Poland)
- Lv́iv (Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Starobelśk (Ukraine)
- Vorkuta (Komi, Russia)
- Berestechko (Ukraine)
- Zolochiv (Lv́ivsḱa oblast,́ Ukraine)
- Ciechanów (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat