Naftali F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Naftali F., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1924, the youngest of nine children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish-Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; membership in Gordonyah; siblings emigrating to Palestine, Bolivia, and Netherlands; German invasion in 1939; one brother's flight to Soviet-occupied territory; deportation in 1942 to Sakrau, Ottmuth, then Gogolin; slave labor building a highway; factory work with British POWs; transfer to Marksta?dt in 1943; slave labor in a Krupp facility; learning his parents had been deported (he never saw them again); transfer to Fu?nfteichen, Wolfsberg, then Ebensee in winter 1944; slave labor digging underground tunnels; resigning himself to death; receiving extra food from German civilian workers; clearing bombing rubble in Graz; liberation by United States troops in May 1945; hospitalization in Bad Ischl; traveling to Italy, intending to emigrate to Palestine; reunion with a cousin in Civitavecchia; his brother in Bolivia arranging emigration papers for him; obtaining them in Rome; a six-week visit with his aunt in New York en route to Bolivia; volunteering for military service in Israel; returning to Bolivia; and contacts with Klaus Barbie. Mr. F. notes his continuing animosity toward Germans.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (hi8)
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Naftali, -- 1924-
- Barbie, Klaus, -- 1913-1991.
Corporate Bodies
- Fried. Krupp AG.
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
- Markstädt (Concentration camp)
- Ottmuth (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Bar mitzvah.
- Forced labor.
- Prisoners of war -- Poland.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Places
- Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Israel.
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Gogolin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Wolfsberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Graz (Austria)
- Chrzanów (Poland)
- Civitavecchia (Italy)
- Bad Ischl (Austria)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Rome (Italy)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat