Rabbi Abraham K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0303
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Video testimony of Rabbi Abraham K., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1918. Rabbi K. describes his family; moving to Sosnowiec in 1942; formation of the ghetto; and deportation to Auschwitz with his fiancee's family. He relates conditions in Birkenau; interaction with other prisoners; being sick with typhus; selections; and being chosen for a special detail. Rabbi K. recalls transfer to Sachsenhausen, where forged English currency was inspected and sorted for a variety of uses by the German government. Rabbi K. recounts incidents of religious observance; working on a Gestapo archive which contained records of property confiscated from Jews in Paris, Belgium and Holland; and correspondence about events in Czechoslovakia. He tells of transfer to Mauthausen through Dresden; finding wheat on the way which they saved to bake matzo on Passover; liberation by the Americans in Ebensee; reunion with his fiancee; return to Katowice; and emigration to Israel.

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. Use of this testimony is restricted to educational, non-commercial, or non-profit use. Any other use is subject to written approval of donor and/or heirs.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • K., Abraham, -- 1918-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ebensee (Concentration camp)
  • Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Money -- Forgeries.
  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
  • Counterfeits and counterfeiting.

Places

  • Katowice (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Sosnowiec ghetto.
  • Sachsenhausen (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- ftamc
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