Franciczek N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3177
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Franciczek N., a non-Jew, who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his parents hiding a Jewish couple immediately after an attack on a cafe frequented by the Germans; his family's active participation in the Armia Krajowa, Polish Underground; the family decision to keep the couple; the woman attending church with his mother; his father obtaining false papers and employment for the couple; smuggling Jews and others to the Czech border; receiving letters threatening to expose them; staging a mock arrest and trial of the blackmailers with other AK members; ceasing their underground activities due to the danger, including sending the couple elsewhere; observing ghetto conditions from a streetcar; a postwar reunion with the Jewish couple his family hid; and receiving the "Righteous Among the Nations" medal in Israel from Yad Vashem at the initiative of the couple. He discusses his regrets that others they helped did not contact them after the war, and other Poles who helped Jews. He shows photographs and letters from the couple in Israel.

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

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