Isaac W. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2958
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Isaac W., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1911, one of six children. He recounts attending a German school; manufacturing woolens; German invasion; fleeing to Lublin; traveling to Krako?w, posing as a non-Jewish Pole; living in a suburb to avoid ghettoization; brief imprisonment in Montelupich in 1942; forced relocation into the Krako?w ghetto; transfer with his family to P?aszo?w in March 1943; working at a factory; separation from his parents during the last selection in March 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; observing Yom Kippur; slave labor; transfer to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops; returning to Bielsko; reclaiming family assets; living in Krako?w, then Bindermichl displaced persons camp; reunion with an uncle; operating a store in Heidelberg; emigrating to the United States in 1949; and traveling to Israel in 1959 to find a wife. Mr. W. notes he is the sole survivor of his immediate family.

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

  • W., Isaac, -- 1911-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ebensee (Concentration camp)
  • Montelupich (Prison)
  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  • Melk (Concentration camp)
  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Forced labor.
  • Hiding.
  • Refugee camps.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Bindermichl (Austria : Refugee camp)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
  • Kraków ghetto.
  • Heidelberg (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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