Alfred N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French speaker helping them understand what was happening; meaningless slave labor; severe beatings; bringing food to his sister-in-law; evening meetings with his father (he was shot after a few months); public hangings; transfer to Warsaw after seven months; clearing rubble from the ghetto; encountering Jews hiding in bunkers; trading currency he found for food; sharing with fellow prisoners; a death march to Kutno; train transport to Dachau, then Mühldorf; working with Hungarian Jews; clearing Allied bombing rubble in Munich; transfer to Muehlhofen, then back to Mühldorf; train evacuation; a mass shooting of 800 at one stop; liberation by United States troops; liberated prisoners killing German soldiers; traveling to Munich; living in Santa Cesarea and Bari, waiting to emigrate to Palestine; incarceration on Cyprus; and arrival in Israel in 1948.
Extent and Medium
5 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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Alfred, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Konzentrationslager Warschau.
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Greek.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Fathers and sons.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Forced labor.
- Revenge.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mass killings.
- Postwar effects.
- Bunkers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Greece.
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Kutno (Poland)
- Santa Cesarea Terme (Italy)
- Bari (Italy)
- Munich (Germany)
- Cyprus.
- Muehlhofen (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat