Ludwig C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ludwig C., who was born in L'viv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of three children. He recounts Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; his father's arrest and incarceration for four weeks; mass killings near their home; forced labor; his brother's escape; a large round-up in August 1942; ghettoization; brief hospitalization for typhus; witnessing Germans hanging Jewish policemen; slave labor in a factory; his brother's return; his sister's murder in a mass killing in March 1943; his parents' escape with assistance from Polish friends; transfer to Janowska; escaping with his brother and another man; finding his parents; hiding together in a Polish farmer's attic; building a bunker; staying with the farmer's mother, then in another house; assistance from his brother's friend; liberation by Soviet troops; seeking other Jews; finding his neighbors' daughter, whom he married; traveling to Munich; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. C. discusses hardships and dangers of exposure while hiding; testifying against Fritz Gebauer, Kommandant of Janowska, at a trial in Germany; continuing relations with and helping the Polish family that saved them; and sharing his experiences with his children.
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
- C., Ludwig, -- 1925-
- Gebauer, Fritz Gotthard.
Corporate Bodies
- Janowska (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
- Mass killings.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Child survivors.
- Fathers and sons.
- Mothers and sons.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Bunkers.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Escapes.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Lʹvov ghetto.
- Lwów (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat