Hersz D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hersz D., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1908. He recalls attending a German school; moving to Belgium with his parents in 1926; working as a painter in Jette; marriage; his daughter's birth; his parents' deportation; taking his daughter to be hidden in the countryside; denunciation by a neighbor; deportation with his wife to Malines, then Auschwitz/Birkenau; immediate separation from her (she was gassed); transfer to Jaworzno; obtaining information for the camp resistance through his privileged position; public hanging of ten men who had attempted an escape through a tunnel; liberation by Soviet troops; repatriation; reclaiming his daughter in Arlon; and marriage to a woman whose husband was killed in the camps. Mr. D. notes still having nightmares about the camps.
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
- D., Hersz, -- 1908-
Corporate Bodies
- Malines (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Jaworzno (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Nightmares.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Jette (Belgium)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Arlon (Belgium)
- Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat