Israel W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Israel W., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1922 to a family of five children. He recalls their orthodoxy; his father working as a kosher butcher; antisemitic harassment; his parents' deaths in the 1930s; working as a furrier in Sosnowiec, ?o?dz?, then Zawiercie; German invasion in 1939; reporting for forced labor in 1940; slave labor in Auenrode, Marksta?dt, Janislawice (Johannisdorf), Gross Masselwitz (he was separated from his brother there and never saw him again), Breslau-Neukirch, and Fu?nfteichen/Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; train transfer to Buchenwald and Bisingen; liberation from a train; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; and returning home. Mr. W. discusses details of camp life; severe beatings; assistance from other prisoners; inter-group relations in the camps; and learning the fate of his siblings from survivors who had been with them (he is the sole survivor of his family).
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- W., Israel, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bisingen (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Markstädt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
Places
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Breslau-Neukirch (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Auenrode (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Janislawice (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Zawiercie (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat