Felix H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Felix H., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1920. He recalls good relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his friend to Soviet-occupied Kovel?, then Rivne; attending medical school in L?viv; German occupation; building roads in a labor camp; escaping with his friends after hearing from a German soldier of the camp's liquidation; escaping the mass killings in Zolochiv; returning to Lublin; escaping from the ghetto with his future wife and with assistance from her father (he never saw his own family again); hiding with assistance from his father's business acquaintance; traveling to Warsaw with his future wife; the shock of conditions in the ghetto; acquiring false papers through the Polish underground; traveling to Lublin to retrieve his father's valuables (they had been stolen); participating with his wife in the Warsaw uprising; their transfer to Pruszko?w; their release in southern Poland; hiding with Polish peasants; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. H. describes attending medical school in Wroc?aw; antisemitic incidents; organizing a student kibbutz; traveling via Czechoslovakia to Vienna; and enrolling in medical school. He attributes his and his wife's survival to Poles who helped them and his ability to pass as a Pole.
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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- H., Felix, -- 1920-
Subjects
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mass killings.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Zolochiv (Lʹvivska oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Prusków (Poland)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Lublin ghetto.
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Poland.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Kovelʹ (Ukraine)
- Rivne (Rivnensʹ ka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Lv́iv (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat