Alexander A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Alexander A., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928, the oldest of three children. He recounts his father's military draft immediately before the war; his capture by the Germans; a one hour visit when he was en route to Germany as a POW; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; non-Jews assisting their move to Mogiła to avoid ghettoization; forced relocation to the Weiliczka ghetto; his grandmother's hospitalization (he never saw her again); relocating to the Kraków ghetto with assistance from German soldiers; slave labor at an airport; his mother hiding his twin sisters with friends in Mogiła; train deportation with his mother; escaping from the train; removing the Jewish star and traveling to Kraków; assistance from family friends; retrieving his sisters; smuggling them into the ghetto, then hiding them in Monastyrysʹka; and continuing to work at the airport.
Extent and Medium
3 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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- A., Alexander, -- 1928-
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jews -- Poland -- Wieliczka.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Escapes.
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
- 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
- Kraków (Poland)
- Poland.
- Kraków ghetto.
- Wieliczka ghetto.
- Monastyrysʹka (Ukraine)
- Mogiła (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat