Abraham F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3382
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Abraham F., who was born in Łomża, Poland in 1919. He recalls his Hasidic family; attending law school in Warsaw; being drafted into the Polish military in 1939; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; imprisonment in a POW camp; returning to Soviet-occupied Łomża; fleeing to L'viv with a Zionist group; their unsuccessful escape attempt; organizing a kibbutz in Vilna in 1940; bringing his brother there; working in a Jewish theater in Kovno; German invasion; an unsuccessful escape attempt; ghettoization; his underground activities; volunteering for a labor camp to join his fiancee; deportation to Stutthof, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Landsberg in winter 1942; sharing food with his fiancee's brothers; slave labor; assistance from a German foreman; and transfer to Litoměřice. Mr. F. recounts assistance from a Czech farmer; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recovering in a Czech hospital; working for Beriḥah in Vienna; reunion with his fiancee in Wels displaced persons camp; marriage in Munich; working for Sokhnut; assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; and emigration to the United States in 1949. He notes the importance of faith to his survival.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes (betacam sp)

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Esther F. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-3383), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • F., Abraham, -- 1919-

Corporate Bodies

  • Beriḥah (Organization)
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Jewish Agency for Palestine.
  • Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
  • Litoměřice (Concentration camp)
  • Landsberg (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Prisoners of war -- Germany.
  • Draft -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Lithuania.
  • Faith.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Resistance.
  • Zionist organizations.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Poland.
  • L'viv (Ukraine)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Łomża (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Vilna (Poland)
  • Wels (Austria : Refugee camp)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Kovno ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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