Jacques B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacques B., who was born in Poland in 1933. He recalls living in Warsaw; vacationing in Otwock when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Sarny with his parents; Soviet occupation; attending school until the German invasion in June 1941; fleeing with his parents to Siberia via Kobyzhcha; living with his mother in Turksib and Dzhambul from the end of 1941 until 1946 (his parents were divorced); observing people starving to death; repatriation to Wroc?aw with his mother; pervasive antisemitism in school; joining the youth section of the Bund; and emigration with his mother to Paris in May 1949.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- B., Jacques, -- 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Mothers and sons.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
Places
- Poland.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Kobyzhcha (Ukraine)
- Turksib (Kazakhstan)
- Paris (France)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Otwock (Poland)
- Sarny (Ukraine)
- Zhambyl (Zhambyl oblysy, Kazakhstan)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat