Hershel P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0717
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in 1922 in ?uko?w, Poland, one of ten children. He recalls antisemitic attacks; helping in his mother's store from age ten; briefly fleeing German invasion; being caught in a round-up; deportation to Ostro?w Mazowiecka; release; returning home; traveling to Soviet occupied Brest; returning home three months later; deportation to a forced labor camp in summer 1940; his brother obtaining his release after sixteen days; hiding during round-ups in April and October 1942; living with one brother in De?blin for ten weeks; returning home; ghettoization; hiding during liquidation on May 2, 1943; changing hiding places several times; staying with a Polish family for one year with his mother, brother, and his family; learning his father had been shot; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Munich; and emigration to the United States in 1947 with assistance from the Joint. Mr. P. tells of sixteen immediate family members who were killed and a 1979 trial in Munich at which he identified a Nazi whom he saw killing Jews.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Hershel P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1366), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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