Joseph B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph B., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1923. He recalls antisemitic incidents during his childhood; German invasion; slave labor in Piotrkowice; hiding with his parents in the fields during the first deportation in 1942; moving to the Krako?w ghetto; hiding with his parents, brother, and uncle on a nearby farm; assistance from a Polish woman; returning to the ghetto; deportation with his parents to Birkenau after the ghetto's liquidation on March 12, 1942; slave labor in the coal mine in Jawiszowitz; praying with other inmates on Yom Kippur; acquiring a privileged position as a dentist's helper; sharing extra food with his father and friends; the death march to Buchenwald via Gleiwitz; working in stone mines in Crawinkel and Espenfeld; the death march from Buchenwald to Litome?ri?ce; and liberation by Soviet troops from Theresienstadt. Mr. B. tells of his father's death; traveling to Prague; returning to Theresienstadt; reunion with his brother; traveling to Linz; emigration with his brother from Mannheim to the United States in 1948; and episodes of adjusting to a new life, most of which are described in the book "Against All Odds."
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (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
- B., Joseph, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Jawischowitz (Concentration camp)
- Crawinkel (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Litoměřice (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Death marches.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Fathers and sons.
- Forced labor.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
Places
- Proszowice (Poland)
- Poland.
- Linz (Austria)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Piotrkowice (Poland)
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Espenfeld (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat