Stanley O. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0990
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Stanley O., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He recounts growing up in Min?sk Mazowiecki; attending high school in Warsaw; a pogrom in Min?sk Mazowiecki in 1936; military training in 1939; German invasion; identifying himself as a non-Jew when his unit was imprisoned by Germans; escaping to Warsaw; obtaining false papers; smuggling food to his family in Min?sk Mazowiecki; his father and brothers moving to Warsaw; joining the Polish underground; arranging hiding places and false papers for his father, brothers, and other Jews; paying blackmail and bribes; delivering guns to the ghetto underground; the ghetto uprising and its destruction in 1943; arrest with his father in the Hotel Polski; incarceration in Pawiak (his father was executed); escaping through the sewers; fighting during the Warsaw uprising in 1944; enlisting in the Polish army; military training in ?o?dz? after the war; moving from Breslau to Germany; and emigrating to the United States in 1951. Mr. O. describes a recent visit to Warsaw with his wife and shows photographs, documents, and the book "The Case of Hotel Polski."

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

  • O., Stanley, -- 1920-

Corporate Bodies

  • Pawiak (Prison)

Subjects

  • Escapes.
  • Prisoners of war -- Germany.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Prisoners of war -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Resistance.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hiding.
  • Fathers and sons.
  • Brothers.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • False papers.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.

Places

  • Warsaw ghetto.
  • Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
  • Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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