Wolf F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in G?ogo?w. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separation from his younger brother upon arrival (he never saw him again); transfer to Zgoda (S?wie?toch?owice) from Birkenau; his privileged position as a messenger; sharing extra food with fellow prisoners; a revolt by Soviet POWs; slave labor in a gun factory; sabotaging the work; transfer to Mauthausen in December 1944; witnessing cannibalism; a death march to Donnerskirchen in March 1945; disappearance of guards in May; living in displaced persons camps near Linz, and in Bindermichl; transfer to Munich, then Bremerhaven; and emigration to the United States in December 1946. Mr. F. discusses the importance of brotherhood in concentration camps; recurring nightmares; and recent trips to Poland.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- F., Wolf.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Szebnie (Concentration camp)
- Zgoda (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Concentration camps -- Revolts.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Mass killings.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Sabotage.
- Cannibalism.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Poland -- Rzeszów.
- Brothers.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Nightmares.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Bindermichl (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Donnerskirchen (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Sawin (Poland)
- Poland.
- Munich (Germany)
- Głogów Małopolski (Poland)
- Rzeszów ghetto.
- Bremerhaven (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat