Willi E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Willi E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany in 1927. He remembers traveling and performing prior to Hitler's ascent to power; racial laws requiring them to live in barracks in 1937-1938; persecution of Jews; deportation of young Romani men; his deportation to a prison camp in Bia?ystok; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in Brzesc Litewski (Brest); deportation to Auschwitz in 1943 (his mother and two siblings were gassed); slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops in 1945; searching for relatives; marriage; and postwar hardships and shortages. He notes he survived the camps "because of Jesus."
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Willi, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Germany.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Faith.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Mass killings.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Germany.
- Brest (Belarus)
- East Prussia (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat