Otto K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Otto K., who was born in Prague to upper middle class parents around 1921. He speaks of joining a Zionist youth movement at the outbreak of the war; the deterioration of the Jewish situation in Prague; and his deportation to Terezin in May, 1942. He describes living conditions there, where he worked in a vegetable garden and was a member of the ghetto's Zionist council. He relates his and his family's transport to Auschwitz; their stay in Birkenau family camp B2B; his job caring for children from a children's barrack until July, 1944, when he was sent to Schwarzheide, a slave labor camp in Germany; and his liberation there.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
- K., Otto, -- ca. 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Schwarzheide (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Zionist organizations.
- Zionist activities.
- Youth movements.
- Zionists.
Places
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Children's block (Auschwitz)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc