Wadja K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Wadja K., who was born in Granice, Poland in 1896. He recalls the first World War; Germans confiscating food in 1915 and 1916; working on road construction; his family's move to Z?elecho?w; working briefly in Warsaw; returning home; working with his father making leather boots; marriage; six weeks compulsory army service; participation in the Jewish Worker's Party; and attending their night school classes. Mr. K. describes emigrating to Luxembourg in 1928 to escape antisemitism; visiting his parents in Poland in 1935; assisting his brother to emigrate to Argentina (another brother already had); German invasion in June 1940; anti-Jewish regulations; escaping to Lisbon, Portugal in October 1940; and emigration nine months later to Argentina to join his brothers. Mr. K. shows documents and photographs.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Wadja, -- 1896-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives.
- Draft -- Poland.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
Places
- Argentina.
- Lisbon (Portugal)
- Luxembourg.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- ZĚelechoĚw (Poland)
- Poland.
- Granice (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat