Isaac E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Isaac E., who was born in Zwolen?, Poland in approximately 1923, one of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder; fleeing to the woods during German bombing; returning to find their home and business destroyed; staying with relatives; his older brother's deportation; living with relatives in Oz?aro?w; his parents and younger brother moving to Lublin; returning with his family to Zwolen? in 1941; brief transfer to Szyd?owiec; being caught in a round-up; escaping; hiding with a Polish friend of his father's; working on a farm with other Jews; deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in 1942; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Cze?stochowa; a brutal beating; transfer to Gross-Rosen, Nordhausen, then Dora; having surgery by a prisoner-doctor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; transfer to Celle; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage; his daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in December 1949. Mr. E. notes none of his immediate family survived; sharing his experiences with his family; and receiving reparations.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes.
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Process Info
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People
- E., Isaac, -- 1923?-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Celle (Germany)
- Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Poland.
- Ożarów (Poland)
- Zwoleń (Radom, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat