Irving C. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2816
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Irving C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He describes a childhood of extreme poverty; working as a tailor; German occupation; slave labor and beatings; fleeing to Bia?ystok; staying with his sister and brother in a synagogue; meeting his future wife and her father; registering to go to the Soviet Union; traveling with his brother, sister, future wife, and her father in cattle cars to Omsk; his marriage; living in barracks on the outskirts of Omsk; hard labor, then working as a tailor; his daughter's birth; a year's military service in Kalachinsk; returning to Omsk; traveling with his wife and her father to Poland in 1945; learning neither his nor his wife's relatives survived; and having to place their daughter in an orphanage while living in a kibbutz in Wroc?aw. Mr. C. describes smuggling across the Soviet border to Czechoslovakia; living in a displaced persons camp in Austria; transfer to other camps in Lechfeld and Augsburg; and emigration to the United States.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette (betacam sp)

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Bella C. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2817), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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