Aaron E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Aaron E., who was born in Soko?o?w Podlaski, Poland in 1933. He describes his father's non-kosher butcher shop; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling out of the ghetto to deliver meat; selections from which no one returned; fear of death from overhearing adult conversations; forced labor on a farm with his family in 1942; being discovered while hiding with his family during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping; his younger sister's deportation to Treblinka; his mother sending him to his other sister to hide with a Polish woman; hiding in her attic until liberation; living with his sister and uncle in ?o?dz?, then in an orphanage; illegally traveling to Germany with his sister; living with her in Fu?rth and Neufreimann displaced persons camps; their emigration to the United States in June 1947; living in an orphanage, then in a loving home; difficulties in school; service in Korea; marriage; and the births of two sons, named for relatives who perished. Mr. E. discusses the loss of his childhood and parents; emotional problems resulting from his experiences, including being an overprotective parent; nightmares; a close relationship with his sister; and his sense of being a perpetual "outsider."
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Aaron, -- 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- Neu Freimann (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Orphanages.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Mothers and sons.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Sokołów Podlaski.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Places
- Sokołów Podlaski (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Sokołów ghetto.
- Fürth (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat