Harold B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1663
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Harold B., who was born in Raczki, Poland in 1921. He recalls attending school and working in Suwa?ki; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Augusto?w with relatives; six months imprisonment in Hrodna as a German spy; returning to Augusto?w; joining his sister in Lyakhovichi; German invasion; fleeing to Zhitkovichi; doing agricultural work in another town; draft into the Soviet military; various assignments including work in an airplane factory in Kazan?; receiving extra food from Russian civilians; marriage in October 1945; repatriation to Poland; traveling to Zamos?c?; antisemitic incidents; fleeing to ?o?dz?; learning no family members survived; working with homeless children in Bielawa Dolna from March until October 1946; traveling via Prague to Vienna; living in displaced persons camps in the Rothschild Hospital, near Linz and in Wels; his daughter's birth in 1947; emigrating to the United States in September 1951; and his second daughter's birth in 1952. He discusses establishing a business and gratitude to his American family.

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

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