David F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Sosnowiec in 1924. He recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in Zionist activities; German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jewish men including his father and uncles; and volunteering for forced labor to fill his family's quota. Mr. F. describes road building, rail work and other assignments in Koch?owice, Brande, Gross Masselwitz, Sebezh, Novosokolniki, Sakrau, Annaberg, and Marksta?dt (building a Krupp factory), always with his friend Harry; kindness from a German worker; arrival of his father; transfer to Fu?nfteichen; transfer to Gross Rosen (separated from his father), Buchenwald (separated from Harry), Bisingen, and Spaichingen; a three-week death march; disappearance of the guards near Wissen; and finding United States troops to help them. He recalls living in Garmisch and Feldafing; reunions with a cousin, Harry, and two sisters; marriage; living in Munich and Schongau; futile efforts to find his sister's baby, who had been left with a woman in Poland; reporting the camp official responsible for his father's death; the births of two children; emigrating to the United States; locating another sister in the Soviet Union; and having a memorial erected at an unmarked mass grave.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
- F., David, -- 1924-2001.
Corporate Bodies
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Markstädt (Concentration camp)
- Annaberg (Concentration camp)
- Spaichingen (Concentration camp)
- Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Bisingen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Revenge.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Fathers and sons.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Zionist activities.
Places
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Spaichingen (Germany: Concentration camp)
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Brande (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Novosokolniki (Russia)
- Sebezh (Russia)
- Kochłowice (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Wissen (Germany)
- Poland.
- Munich (Germany)
- Schongau (Germany)
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat