Hubert W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hubert W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He describes moving to Prague with his family when he was five; working as a clerk prior to German occupation; hiding his Jewish identity when he was employed as a secretary-translator for a newspaper; deportation to Breslau as a non-Jewish slave laborer; working as a translator; his deportation to Auschwitz after his mother revealed his whereabouts; meaningless labor; seeing his father; the death march to Mauthausen; liberation on May 5, 1945; recovering from typhus in Prague; a reunion with his mother in Terezi?n; traveling with her to Vienna; working as a secretary for the Joint in Munich; and emigrating to the United States with the Joint's assistance. Mr. W. speaks of the sadness evoked by his memories of the Holocaust and his good relations with the non-Jewish inmates in Breslau.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)
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., Hubert, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Fathers and sons.
- Forced labor.
- Hiding.
- Death marches.
Places
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Munich (Germany)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Austria.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat