Israel P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1640
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Israel P., who was born in Przysucha, Poland in 1917, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his parents' deaths when he was a child; attending a yeshiva in Lublin; moving to Warsaw; membership in the Bund; joining his brothers in Paris in 1936; socialist activities; enlisting in the military in 1939; serving in a Polish unit; demobilization in July 1940; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish measures; losing his job; arrest in May 1941; incarceration in Pithiviers; organized Sabbath observance and cultural activities; transfer to Beaune-la-Rolande; deportation with three of his brothers to Auschwitz in June 1942; separation from his brothers; forced labor building gas chambers; the deaths of his brothers; vicious kapos; starvation; being beaten for refusing to beat other prisoners; receiving protection and food from a German; revived hope upon receiving news of German defeats and the Warsaw ghetto uprising; transfer to Sachsenhausen in November 1944; a death march; and liberation in May 1945 by United States and Soviet troops.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes (vhs)

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

  • P., Israel, -- 1917-

Corporate Bodies

  • Allgemeyner Idisher arbaytĚŁerbund in LitĚŁa, Poylen un Rusland.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp)
  • Pithiviers (Concentration camp)
  • Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Death marches.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, French.
  • Forced labor.
  • Brothers.
  • World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Paris (France)
  • Poland.
  • Przysucha (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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