Hershel P. Holocaust testimony
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Hershel, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Brothers.
- Mothers and sons.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łuków (Siedlce)
- War crime trials -- Germany -- Munich.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Family.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)
- Łuków ghetto.
- Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland)
- Brest (Belarus)
- Łuków (Siedlce, Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat