Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4308
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1922. He recalls moving to Brussels after middle school; attending an elite Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing briefly to France; working for the Red Cross; meeting members of the Resistance; working as a resistance courier; arrest in May 1944; incarceration in Antwerp; transfer to Buchenwald, then shortly thereafter to Dora; working in the hospital where he could help many other prisoners; transfer to Ellrich; public hanging of a prisoner who had cannibalized a corpse; transfer to Oranienberg; evacuation; liberation from a death march by United States troops; repatriation by the Red Cross; marriage in 1947; and taking over his father's business. Mr. H. discusses the prisoner hierarchy in camps. He shows photographs and documents.

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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • H., Joseph, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Dora (Concentration camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
  • Ellrich (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Men.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Belgian.
  • Video tapes.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Death marches.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Belgium.
  • Turnhout (Belgium)
  • Brussels (Belgium)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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