Henry N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0445
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and transfer to Budzyn?; working at a Heinkel factory; mass killings by the camp commander Feiks; assistance from the camp elder Noah Stockman and others; transfer to Radom in 1942; a death march to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; deportation to Auschwitz, then Vaihingen and Allach; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. N. describes living in Weilheim; forming committees to aid Jewish refugees; assistance from the Red Cross, Joint, and UNRRA; and emigrating to the United States.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • N., Henry.
  • Stockman, Noah.
  • Feiks, Reinhold.

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke.
  • Budzyń (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Forced labor.
  • Death marches.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
  • Mass killings.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Izyum (Ukraine)
  • Kharkiv (Ukraine)
  • Białystok (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Żyrardów (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Vaihingen (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Allach (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Warsaw ghetto.
  • Weilheim an der Teck (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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