Harry F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1919. He describes attending public school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; joining his younger brother at a work camp (he never saw his parents or older brother again); escaping; his brother joining him in Lubarto?w; living briefly in the Majdan Tatarsky ghetto; obtaining false papers from the underground; being caught escaping; getting into a work group (his brother was deported); traveling to Tereszpol; working in ?uko?w; secretly sharing his food with Jews in the ghetto; his boss telling him not to return after Christmas (he knew he was a Jew); entering the ?uko?w ghetto; escaping to Radom; entering the ghetto; finding a friend; escaping, then returning; marriage to his friend in July 1943; leaving the ghetto; forced labor in a munitions factory; his wife and her sister joining him; escaping to the woods; a Pole feeding him; learning his wife had been deported; hiding in the woods with five others; a Polish policeman assisting their escape from the AK; assistance from an escaped Soviet POW; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Lublin; return of his father's store; reunion with his wife; his daughter's birth; antisemitic violence; living in Landshut displaced persons camp, then Stuttgart; and joining his sister in the United States. Mr. F. notes not sharing his experiences, even with his children; nightmares; his inability to tell it all; and recording his testimony for future generations.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- F., Harry, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Poland. -- Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Armia Krajowa.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Majdan Tatarski.
- Brothers.
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Husband and wife.
- Prisoners of war -- Poland.
- Refugee camps.
- Nightmares.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łuków.
- Jews -- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Forests.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
Places
- Lublin (Poland)
- Poland.
- Tereszpol Wąski (Poland)
- Lubartów (Poland)
- Radom ghetto.
- Łuków ghetto.
- Landshut (Germany: Refugee camp)
- (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Łuków (Lublin, Poland)
- Majdan Tatarski ghetto.
- Lublin ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat