Harold B. Holocaust testimony
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Harold, -- 1921-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Draft -- Soviet Union.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Suwałki (Poland)
- Augustów (Suwałki, Poland)
- Hrodna (Belarus)
- Lyakhovichi (Belarus)
- Zhitkovichi (Belarus)
- Kazanʹ (Russia)
- Zamość (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Bielawa Dolna (Poland)
- Rothschild Hospital (Vienna, Austria : Refugee camp)
- Wels (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Grodno (Belarus)
- Raczki (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat