Arnold K. Hocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Arnold K., who was born in Suwa?ki, Poland in 1928, the second of four brothers. He recalls his family's affluence; vacationing with his mother and brothers in summer 1939 (he never saw his father again); German invasion; living in Soko??ka with his mother, brothers, and other relatives; moving to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; his relatives' deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with his older brother; smuggling food to his mother and younger brothers; hiding during round-ups; being found; separation from his mother and younger brothers; deportation with his older brother to Viivikonna; slave labor in coal mines with Soviet POWs for a year; transfer to Ereda; finding their uncle and cousin; his brother's futile effort to save them; slave labor for Organisation Todt; separation from his brother (he was killed); becoming depressed; transfer to Tallinn; hearing a cousin's voice which "snapped" him out of depression; ship transfer to Stutthof; assistance from Danish POWs and a German supervisor; transfer to a camp in Poland; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Lauenberg; traveling to Bia?ystok; living in Stettin, Schlactensee displaced persons camp, and Munich; reunion with relatives returning from Siberia; assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; attending university; emigration to the United States to attend university; and earning a doctorate degree. Mr. K. discusses camp and ghetto life; the impossibility of revolt; and war criminals who live with impunity.
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3 videocassettes
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People
- K., Arnold, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Organisation Todt (Germany)
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Refugee camps.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish refugees.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Prisoners of war -- Estonia.
- Brothers.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Viivikonna (Estonia : Concentration camp)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Szczecin (Poland)
- Schlactensee (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Vilna ghetto.
- Ereda (Estonia : Concentration camp)
- Stettin (Germany)
- Suwałki (Poland)
- Poland.
- Tallinn (Estonia)
- Lauenburg (Germany)
- Sokółka (Poland)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat