Karl W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Karl W., a Romani, who was born in 1931, one of ten children. He recalls his father's death; deportation with his family from Kiel to Majdanek in 1940; separation from his older brothers (they went to the men's camp); remaining with his mother and sisters; public hangings; slave labor; good relations with Polish and Jewish children; returning to Germany after liberation in 1945 (five siblings had perished); marriage to another survivor; and continuing hostility to Romanies. He discusses the importance of marrying a survivor; observing that the Jews received the worst treatment in Majdanek; his mother's inability to speak of those years; and one son's reluctance to hear his story.
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
- W., Karl, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Child survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Mothers and sons.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Germany.
- Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Kiel (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat