Yehuda L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Yehuda L., who was born in Radomys?l Wielki, Poland in 1920. He describes attending a Tarbut school; participating in Zionist activities; working in his parents' business; trying to persuade his parents to flee to Israel after Germany annexed Austria; German invasion; gradual anti-Jewish measures; the role of the Judenrat; the first killings in 1941; hiding during "aktions"; mass killings at the Jewish cemetery in July 1942; his father's deportation to P?aszo?w; working at the airplane factory in Mielec; hearing about P?aszo?w's commander Amon Goeth when his father was transferred to Mielec; learning of the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka uprisings; public hangings; deportation to Flossenbu?rg; learning of the failed Warsaw uprising from Polish prisoners in September 1944; working in the Messerschmitt airplane factory; deportation to Litome?r?ice; evacuation to Prague; hospitalization with assistance from the Red Cross; and liberation. Mr. L. relates returning to Poland; learning no one from his family survived; marriage in a refugee camp in Austria; traveling to Italy; living for two years in Modena with assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; amd emigration to Argentina via Asuncion, Paraguay in May 1948.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- L., Yehuda, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Litoměřice (Concentration camp)
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jewish councils.
- Fathers and sons.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Zionist organizations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mass killings.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Modena (Italy)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Radomyśl Wielki (Poland)
- Poland.
- Mielec (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat