Henri B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's emigration to Paris; being sent to Poland to live with his grandparents; returning to Paris in the mid-1930s; no religious observances in his home; evacuation with other children to an OSE home in the Creuse; warm relations with the children and staff; a close friendship with a young man; traveling in a group to Casablanca via Marseille in spring 1942, then to the United States in a Portuguese ship; living briefly with a family in Yonkers, N.Y., then for five years with a family in Pittsburgh; close friendship with a boy who became a surrogate brother; learning that his father had perished and his mother had survived; moving to Israel in 1948; military service; living on a kibbutz; returning to France; and marriage. Mr B. discusses his sense of lack of family ties; never feeling close to his mother; and warm memories of the OSE home.
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
- B., Henri, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE.
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Foster parents.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Israel.
- Marseille (France)
- Casablanca (Morocco)
- Yonkers (N.Y.)
- Creuse (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat