Marian F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1781) [videorecording] / interviewed by Pam Goodman and Lilian Sicular, April 14, 1991.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 4 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied Lʹviv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtaining false papers from a non-Jew for him and his brother, hoping to escape; participating in the 1943 ghetto uprising; deportation with his brother to Majdanek; public hangings; pointless slave labor; beatings resulting in permanent injuries, for which he receives reparation payments; avoiding selections with assistance from others; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; helping his brother; assistance from a Polish supervisor; his former professor sending food, clothing, and money through the supervisor; transfer to Buchenwald, then Schleiben in summer 1944; slave labor in a munitions factory; assistance from a German supervisor; sabotaging their work; transfer to Bautzen; a death march to Mikulášovice; abandonment by the guards; and liberation by Polish troops on May 8, 1945. Mr. F. notes many Jews and non-Jews who helped him survive, and sending his former professor and German supervisor money from the United States. He shows photographs and documents.

June 01, 2002

Marian F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1781). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Marian F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1781). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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