Barry B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0402
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He describes his middle-class, orthodox family; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; helping Jews forced into the ghetto from surrounding villages; overcrowding, starvation, isolation, and deportations; refusing to believe rumors about concentration camps; working as a mechanic repairing sewing machines; his father's death from hunger; hiding his mother during round-ups; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau (he never saw her again); stealing soup and sharing it with his brother-in-law; volunteering for transfer with his brother-in-law; witnessing the bombardment of Dresden from a train; working at a factory in Siegmar-Schoenau; beatings for stealing soup to feed sick prisoners in 1945; a death march; and disappearance of German guards. Mr. B. recalls traveling to ?o?dz?; finding his sisters and brother; emigration to Canada in 1948; and his persistent fear for three years after the war .

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes

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

  • B., Barry, -- 1924-

Corporate Bodies

  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Death marches.
  • Child survivors.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives.
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Siegmar-Schoenau (Germany : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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