Daniel R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Daniel R., who was born in Brzez?nica, Poland in 1909. He recalls his sisters' marriages; his marriage in March 1937; living in Cze?stochowa; his son's birth; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; his wife and son hiding in a bunker; working at the HASAG munitions factory; his family's denouncement and deportation to Treblinka in 1942 (he never saw them again); his transfer to Buchenwald in 1944; slave labor in Weimar; finding food while clearing bombing rubble and sharing it with fellow prisoners; transfer to Allach; and liberation from a train by United States troops. Mr. R. describes returning to Cze?stochowa; learning his entire family had been killed; fleeing to Munich after the Kielce pogrom; marriage in Feldafing displaced persons camp in 1947; emigrating to the United States in February 1949; and his daughter's birth.
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
- R., Daniel, -- 1909-
Corporate Bodies
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- Children -- Death.
- Wife -- Death.
Places
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Allach (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Brzeźnica (Poland)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat