Harry T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Lask, Poland in 1923. He recalls the outbreak of war; an unsuccessful attempt to flee to ?o?dz?; German occupation; public humiliation of Jews; fleeing, with his brother, to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone via Ma?kinia and Zareby Koscielne; returning to Lask in December; ghettoization; deportation to Nekla with his brother on March 25, 1942; unloading stones in another camp; public hangings of prisoners; transfer with his brother to Andrzejow in April 1943; their transfer to Birkenau in September 1943, and in December 1943 to Jaworzno; obtaining a privileged position making leather products for the lager fuhrer, who saved his and his brother's lives; frequent killings during the death march to Blechhammer in January 1945; a death march to Gross-Rosen; transport to Buchenwald; separation from his brother when he was transferred to Scho?nebeck; evacuation to Oranienburg/Sachsenhausen in April 1945; escaping from a barn during a death march in May; liberation by Soviet troops; learning that his brothers had survived; marriage; and emigration to the United States in September 1949.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- T., Harry, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
- Schönebeck (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Jaworzno (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Brothers.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lask.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Mutual aid.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Lask ghetto.
- Nekla (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Andrzejow (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Małkinia (Poland)
- Zareby Koscielne (Poland)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Lask (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat