Victor C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-192) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock, February 11, 1983 and February 25, 1983.

New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1983.

2 videorecordings(2 hr., 37 min. and 2 hr., 56 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Cooper, Victor. Interview 6982. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Victor C. (accompanied by his daughter Belinda) who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielke, Poland in 1914. He relates his father's death; the family's move to Sosnowiec; extreme poverty; his mother's efforts to raise and educate four sons; studying in Kraków; being drafted into the Polish army in 1939; being taken as a prisoner-of-war; and his escape. He describes returning to Strzemieszyce; his marriage; the birth of his child; ghetto conditions and organization; transfer with his family to Będzin; forced labor; transfers to many camps; the variety of conditions and organizational structures within the camps; finding his brother in Markstädt; transfer to Gross Rosen; the agonizing memory of leaving his dying brother; evacuation to Flossenbürg, then to Buchenwald; the Buchenwald to Dachau death march and his escape; aid by foreign workers and peasants; and hospitalization by the American army. Mr. C. recalls learning of the deaths of his wife and child; organizing displaced persons in Bavaria after his recovery; assisting in the illegal immigration to Palestine; and his emigration to the United States. In this unusually detailed and vivid testimony Mr. C. reflects upon the Holocaust; media portrayal of it; and the history and destiny of the Jewish people.

June 01, 2002

Victor C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-192). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Victor C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-192). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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