Jerry H. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2389
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jerry H., who was born in Poznan?, Poland in 1929. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; antisemitic harassment; visiting grandparents in ?o?dz?; his father's suicide due to financial reasons; moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; his sister's demeaning forced labor; ghettoization; attending school; his grandmother's and mother's deaths; working in a leather factory; hospitalization; working as a messenger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister (he never saw her again); frequent selections; transfer to Braunschweig; slave labor in a factory; transfer to Watenstedt; train evacuation to Ravensbru?ck; prisoners sharing food; receiving food from the Red Cross; transfer to Wo?bbelin; liberation by United States troops; returning to Poland; finding an aunt in Warsaw; traveling illegally to Prague; assistance from the Red Cross; transfer to England; and living in a group home in Windermere.

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

  • H., Jerry, -- 1929-

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  • Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
  • Watenstedt (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Braunschweig (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • Forced labor.
  • Child survivors.

Places

  • Poznań (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Windermere (England)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Łódź ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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