Arnold R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1920. He recalls graduating from a technical school in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving to the ghetto area with his family; escaping to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki in 1940 (he never saw his parents again); working as a painter; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto in a network organized by the ghetto leaders; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942; avoiding deportation with assistance from a German officer; forced labor in the remaining small ghetto; transfer to Bliz?yn in 1943; slave labor in an ammunition factory; an unsuccessful attempt to construct an escape tunnel; deportation to Auschwitz, then Birkenau, in September 1944; working as a mechanic, dismantling aircraft, until January 17, 1945; and evacuation.
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
- R., Arnold, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Bliżyn (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto.
- Łódź ghetto.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat