Jacob F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1913. He recalls becoming a tailor; marriage; the births of two sons; German invasion; ghettoization; organizing tailor shops; measuring Himmler; making him a leather coat; measuring Hans Frank and Adolf Eichmann for leather coats; witnessing a mass killing of children from the orphanage; transfer to Majdan Tatarski ghetto; preparing a hiding place for his wife and sons; transfer with them to Majdanek, then alone to Lublin (Lipowa 7); being shot while visiting his wife (he shows the scar); retrieving his wife and one son from Majdanek with help from his supervisor (his younger son was killed); transfer to Lublin prison; learning his wife and son were killed; transfer to Radom in July 1944; a death march to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; transfer to Auschwitz, Natzweiler-Struthof, then Dachau; hospitalization; liberation by United States troops; working as a tailor for U.S. military personnel; his second marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. F. shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- F., Jacob, -- 1913-
- Eichmann, Adolf, -- 1906-1962.
- Himmler, Heinrich, -- 1900-1945.
- Frank, Hans, -- 1900-1946.
Corporate Bodies
- Struthof (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Children -- Death.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Husband and wife.
- Fathers and sons.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Mass killings.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Poland -- Majdan Tatarski.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- TomaszoĚw Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Lublin ghetto.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- (WojewoĚdztwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)
- Majdan Tatarski ghetto.
- Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat