Isaac N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2027
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Isaac N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He recounts participation in Po?alei Zion including organizing summer camps and meeting his future wife; German invasion; a futile attempt to escape to Warsaw; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; contact with H?ayim Rumkowski while establishing a soup kitchen; his belief that Rumkowski prolonged the ghetto's existence; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother's selection for death; transfer with his father and brother to Dachau, then Kaufering; his father's death; transfer to Utting, then back to Dachau; liberation from a forced march by United States troops; hospitalization with his brother in Bad To?lz; transfer to Feldafing; reunion with his future wife and sister; marriage; becoming administrator of Fo?hrenwald in 1951; and emigrating to the United States in 1957. Mr. N. shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

3 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

People

  • N., Isaac, -- 1915-
  • Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.

Corporate Bodies

  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers -- Poʻalei Zion.
  • Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
  • Kaufering (Concentration camp)
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Fathers and sons.
  • Brothers.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • Forced labor.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Utting (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Bad Tölz (Germany)
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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