Irving C. Holocaust testimony
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- C., Irving, -- 1915-
Subjects
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
Places
- Omsk (Russia)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Lechfeld (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Kalachinsk (Russia)
- Augsburg (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat