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Arnošt L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4389)
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Title
Arnošt L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4389) [videorecording], November 20, 2004.
Created
Israel : Words & Images, 2004.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (8 hr.) : col.
Language
Czech
Notes
Due to the fact that this testimony contains significant dialogue between the witness and the interviewer, two versions were produced at the time of the taping. One version has the camera focused solely on the witness; the second has two cameras alternating between the witness and the interviewer.
Related publication: Miláček / Arnošt Lustig. -- Toronto : 68 Publishers, c1973.
Related publication: Tma nemá stín / Arnošt Lustig. -- Praha : Československý Spisovatel, c1991.
Related publication: Darkness casts no shadow / Arnost Lustig ; translated by Jeanne Nemcova. -- Washington : Inscape, c1976.
Related publication: Diamonds of the night / by Arnost Lustig ; translated by Jeanne Němcová. -- Washington : INSCAPE, c1978.
Related publication: Démanty noci / Arnošt Lustig. -- Praha : Hynek, c1998.
Related publication: Dita Saxová / Arnošt Lustig. -- Toronto : Sixty-Eight Publishers, 1982.
Related publication: Dita Sax / Arnošt Lustig ; translated from the Czech by George Theiner. -- London : Hutchinson, 1966.
Related publication: Dita Saxová [videorecording] / [presented by] Československý filmexport ; screenplay by Arnošt Lustig, Antonín Moskalyk ; directed by Antonín Moskalyk. -- Chicago, IL : Facets Video, c1987.
This testimony is in Czech.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Arnošt L., a renowned Czech writer who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1926. He recalls his family's poverty; attending a German kindergarten; his mother's orthodoxy; attending religious school at her insistence; antisemitic harassment; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with his parents to Theresienstadt; developing pride in being Jewish; cultural activities; living in a Zionist barrack; developing deep friendships; observing communist and Zionist idealism; deportation to Auschwitz; assistance from fellow-prisoners; learning of the gas chambers; observing his father's arrival (he was immediately gassed); later seeing his mother from afar (she did not survive); a Nazi soldier providing extra food; the morality of communists in the camps; observing Soviet liberation of Prague in May 1945; sharing his experiences with those who were not in camps, but of being believed; joining the communist party which he later regretted; publication of his work; traveling to Italy with his wife in 1968; learning of the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia; moving to Israel, Yugoslavia, then the United States; and returning to Czechoslovakia twenty-one years later. Mr. L. discusses authors who influenced his work and those whom he knows; the profound impact of the camps on his life and work; his works based on his experiences during the Holocaust; themes in his writing; issues of translation; his desire to be buried next to his grandfather in Prague; and his belief that literature is his home. He reads from his writing.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2007
References
Arnošt L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4389). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Arnošt L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4389). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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