Ralph B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0801
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ralph B., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland in 1915. He recalls his family's involvement in the textile and leather industries; antisemitic incidents; a futile attempt to emigrate in 1938; German invasion; fleeing to Vilnius; returning after Soviet occupation of Bia?ystok; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings and burnings; ghettoization in August; marriage; working outside of the ghetto, thus obtaining additional food; both altruistic and self-serving members of the Judenrat; an unsuccessful uprising at the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; selection to clean the ghetto rubble (his wife and daughter remained with him); his daughter's death; deportation to Lublin via Treblinka; help from others when he had typhus; and transfer to Auschwitz in July 1944. Mr B. discusses his special affinity for Bia?ystok and shows the Bia?ystok memorial book.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • B., Ralph, -- 1915-

Corporate Bodies

  • Treblinka (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Jewish councils.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland -- Białystok.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Forced labor.
  • Children -- Death.
  • Jews -- Poland -- BiaŁystok.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Resistance.
  • Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.

Places

  • Białystok ghetto
  • Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Białystok (Poland)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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