Heinz K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Heinz K., who was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He describes growing up in Thessalonike?; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; his parents' assignment as translators (he and his family spoke German); a death march and train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; looking for his mother and sister en route (he did not find them); transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; separation from his father; hospitalization; and liberation by United States troops.
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
- K., Heinz, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Fathers and sons.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Greece -- ThessalonikeĚ.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- ThessalonikeĚ (Greece)
- Salonika ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat