David A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of David A., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1928 and moved to Chorzo?w in 1930. He describes his happy, traditional but not orthodox, home. He discusses the German occupation; the rounding up of Jews; removal to the Krosno and Rzeszo?w ghettos in 1940; his experiences as a slave laborer before deportation to P?aszo?w in 1940; slave labor, living conditions and mass killings at P?aszo?w; a move to Sachsenhausen in 1943; and work in a munitions factory until its bombing and liberation by the United States in 1945. He describes his postwar experiences in Berlin; his return to Poland to find his father; their reunion; and his emigration to the United States in 1949 and his life thereafter.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- A., David, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews -- Poland -- Rzeszów.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Mass killings.
- Child survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Poland -- Krosno (Krosno)
Places
- Krosno (Krosno, Poland)
- Poland.
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
- Krosno ghetto.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Rzeszów ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc