Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2058
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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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