Joseph T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph T., who was born in Rozwado?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his mother's career as a pharmacist and his father's as an attorney (he was a Polish military veteran); German invasion; expulsion of all the Jews across the San River to Soviet-occupied territory; traveling to L?viv where his mother had a sister; his father taking a low-level job to avoid Soviet deportation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization in November; being warned in 1942 by a non-Jewish friend of transports to extermination camps; his father obtaining false papers for him from the Polish underground; living in Rzeszo?w as a non-Jew; working for the railroad; his mother's arrival; finding a Polish family with whom she lived; his father's arrival (he stayed with him); liberation in July 1944; attending medical school; and emigration to the United States in 1958. Dr. T. mentions many non-Jews who helped save him and his parents.
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
- T., Joseph, -- 1923-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
- Fathers and sons.
- Mothers and sons.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Lʹvov ghetto.
- Soviet occupation.
Places
- Poland.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Rozwadów (Poland)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat