William K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1376
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Tarno?w (Wojewo?dztwo Ma?opolskie, Poland), Poland in 1922, one of five children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-635), Mr. K. recounts writing poetry as a boy; working at his mother's candy store; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1936; a Pole reneging on his agreement to hide their younger sister because she "looked too Jewish"; contemplating a group suicide; slave labor in the Madritsch factory in P?aszo?w; a severe beating in Mauthausen for refusing sexual advances by a kapo; observing cannibalism in Ebensee; hospitalization in Mys?owice en route home with his brothers after the war; and their moves to Krako?w, Wroc?aw, then Munich. Mr. K. discusses the prisoner hierarchy in the camps; the importance to his survival of remaining with his brothers; and depression and nightmares resulting from his experiences.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: William K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-635), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocuast Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • K., William, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  • Ebensee (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Postwar effects.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Nightmares.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Brothers.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Sexual harassment.
  • Suicide.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Tarńow (Województwo Małopolskie)
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Tarńow ghetto.
  • St. Valentin (Austria : Concentration camp)
  • Poland.
  • Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Mysłowice (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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