Andre T. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4034
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Andre T., a non-Jew, who was born in Belgium in 1920, the older of two children. He recounts his "bourgeois" background; attending university; military draft in 1939; postings in Liège, then Brussels; German invasion in May 1940; brief capture; returning to Brussels; attempting to escape to England via France; arrest in Port-Vendres; transfer to Peripignan; being tried for having improper documents; release and immediate re-arrest; transfer to Argelès; escape with two friends; traveling to Limoux; obtaining false papers; returning to Brussels via Sète and Lille; joining the underground; delivering weapons and false papers; fleeing to Paris; arrest; incarceration in Santé; transfer to St. Gilles; learning his parents had been imprisoned; negotiating their release; transfer to Cologne, Essen, Bochum, then Bonn; observing a Jewish prisoner, who was segregated; a sham trial; transfer to Engelstadt, then Kaishem in 1944; forced labor in a clothing workshop; sabotaging production; appointment as an interpreter; solitary confinement for assisting a fellow prisoner; prisoners sharing food; transfer to Dachau; receiving Red Cross parcels; liberation by United States troops; many deaths resulting from eating; returning to Brussels via Liège; and reunion with his family. Mr. T. discusses details of prison and camp life, particularly total humiliation; attributing his survival to help from others; and visiting Dachau with his son.

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.

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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