Hershel P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hershel P., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1922. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-717), Mr. P. recounts a forced march to Siedlce, then Ostro?e?ka in 1939; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to ?osice with his sister and brother-in-law en route to Soviet-occupied territory; working as a Soviet policeman after the war; deserting in April 1945; traveling to Lublin; obtaining false papers from an official; and traveling west to Katowice, then Wroc?aw.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Hershel, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Jews -- Poland -- Łuków (Siedlce)
- War crime trials -- Germany -- Munich.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Family.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Brothers.
- Mothers and sons.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Soviet occupation.
Places
- Katowice (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Brest (Belarus)
- Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland)
- Ostrołęka (Ostrołęka, Poland)
- Łosice (Poland)
- Poland.
- Łuków (Lublin, Poland)
- Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Łuków ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat