Abraham N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4199
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Abraham N., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1921, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1926; his parents' orthodoxy; their poverty; attending a Jewish school; participating in Mizrahi and Yiddischer Arbieter Sport Klub (YASK); apprenticing as a dental technician at age fourteen; joining Maccabi and the Communist party in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; being evacuated to southern France; expulsion from a Belgian refugee camp in Rouens due to his Polish citizenship; living in Segur; returning home a few months later; anti-Jewish laws; joining the Belgian Resistance with his brother; distributing pamphlets; moving to Brussels, then Charleroi; obtaining false papers in Seraing; working for a furrier in Brussels; living with his future wife and another Resistant; assignments to blow up homes and assassinate collaborators, sabotage trains, rob banks and post offices to obtain Resistance funds, and arrange escapes of arrested Resistants; efforts to merge the Jewish and Belgian groups; and arrests in 1942 of his future wife and her parents (they were killed).

Extent and Medium

9 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

People

  • N., Abraham, -- 1921-

Corporate Bodies

  • Breendonk (Concentration camp)
  • Maccabi World Union.
  • Mizrachi.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Death marches.
  • Escapes.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • Hiding.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Resistance.
  • False papers.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar effects.

Places

  • Seraing (Belgium)
  • Charleroi (Belgium)
  • Ségur-les-Villas (France)
  • Rouen (France)
  • Viviers (France)
  • Cologne (Germany)
  • Nil Saint Vincent (Belgium)
  • Brussels (Belgium)
  • Zwieberge (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Sierpc (Poland )
  • Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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