Norman L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Norman L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls German invasion; moving into the ghetto with his parents; obtaining an apartment by becoming a building manager; starvation and frequent deaths; his depression; the shock of witnessing a brutal killing; his family's deportation to Treblinka (he never saw them again); obtaining a factory job with his friend's assistance; working until November 1942; escaping with assistance from a garbage collector; acquiring false papers from a non-Jewish acquaintance; renting an apartment and selling soap, posing as a non-Jew; arrest during the Warsaw uprising in August 1944; forced labor at the Heinkel factory in Oranienburg/Sachsenhausen; deportation to Pruszko?w; slave labor in Zwieberge/Halberstadt; a hospitalization during which he recovered his strength; escaping during the death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. L. describes returning to Poland; brief arrest by the Soviets; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1964.
Extent and Medium
4 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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- L., Norman, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke.
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- PruszkoĚw (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- Death marches.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Halberstadt (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Zwieberge (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat