Nathan F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nathan F., who was born in approximately 1918 in Krako?w, Poland. He recounts his mother's death when he was an infant; his father's remarriage; working in his father's grocery store; playing soccer; his father's death when he was eleven; abandonment by his stepmother; living with his siblings; German invasion in 1939; military draft; serving in Tarno?w; arrest by the Soviets; transfer to Rzeszo?w; brief incarceration in Vinnyt?s?i?a?, Kiev, and Kharkiv; deportation to Siberia; slave labor felling trees; release; traveling to Moscow; marriage to a Russian; serving in a Polish division of the Soviet army; capture by Germans; escape; serving as a medic in Jab?onna, Warsaw, and elsewhere; being wounded; traveling to Cze?stochowa; reunion with his sister in Krakow; his wife and brother joining him from Russia; meeting them in ?o?dz?; opening a store in Krako?w; moving to another town; and emigration to the United States in 1958. He notes the death of one sister and her child in Auschwitz. He shows photographs, documents, and war medals.
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
- F., Nathan, -- 1918?-
Subjects
- Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
- Postwar experiences.
- Escapes.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Prisoners of war -- Poland.
- Draft -- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Łódź (Poland)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Poland.
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Jabłonna (Warsaw, Poland)
- Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Siberia (Russia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat