Edgar A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edgar A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He describes moving to Warsaw with his family in 1934 due to antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation and deportations; along with his mother, sister and aunt, being exempted from deportation due to his aunt's position as head of the children's hospital; participating in a classical orchestra; his sister's death; his father's escape to the Aryan side in January 1943; joining his father and aunt outside the ghetto; hiding with his father and aunt in a Polish friend's apartment in Z?oliborz; his father purchasing an apartment in Bielany through a Polish acquaintance; clandestinely receiving money from the Joint and Bund; fleeing with his father and aunt to Bania after the Warsaw uprising of 1944; and liberation by Soviet troops in Gola. Mr. A. speaks of traveling with his father to Lublin; attending a music conservatory in ?o?dz?; escaping to Paris after his father's death; and emigration to the United States two years later.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Edgar, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jewish ghettos -- Songs and music.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Fathers and sons.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Paris (France)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Gola (Poland)
- Bania (Poland)
- Bielany (Warsaw, Poland)
- Źoliborz (Warsaw, Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat