Stanley B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-401) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ian Russ and Elaine Perlsweig, January 28, 1984.

Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1984.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 26 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Bronner, Stanley. Interview 13356. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Stanley B., who was born in Oświęcim, Poland in 1923. He recounts antisemitic incidents after Hitler came to power in 1933; an apprenticeship as a jeweler in Bielitz; German invasion; his mother's and siblings' unsuccessful attempt to flee; anti-Jewish laws; construction of Auschwitz concentration camp; Himmler's visit to Oświęcim; visiting his family in Sosnowiec before they were deported (he never saw them again); transfer to Blechhammer; working as an electrician; doing some jewelry work for camp officials in exchange for food; escaping during evacuation from a barn in Głogówek; crossing the Oder; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. B. describes a public hanging of a prisoner, for using wire as a belt, who did not die until the fourth time he was hung.

June 01, 2002

Stanley B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-401). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Stanley B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-401). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)