John F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3147
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of John F., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls one brother's military draft in January 1939; brief German invasion in September followed by Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau when the ghetto was liquidated; separation from his family (he never saw them again); slave labor constructing barracks; a privileged position as the kapo's assistant; assistance from a non-Jewish German prisoner; smuggling food with others; building storage rooms; trading with civilian workers; assistance from a doctor from Pruz?h?any when he was beaten; assignment to the Canada Kommando; taking infants from newly arrived prisoners to save them from selection; sorting prisoners' belongings; evacuation to Sachsenhausen, Dachau, then Landsberg; assistance from doctors from Pruz?h?any when he was hospitalized; liberation from a death march by United States troops on May 1, 1945; recuperating in Wolfratshausen; and working in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. Mr. F. discusses belonging to the association of Pruz?h?any survivors and shows a photograph.

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

  • F., John, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Landsberg (Concentration camp)
  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.

Subjects

  • Child survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • Death marches.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Pruz︠h︡any.

Places

  • Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Pruz︠h︡any ghetto.
  • Wolfratshausen (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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