Noe H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4269) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Barbara Hadley Katz, March 5, 2004.

New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2004.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 40 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Heitlinger, Noe. Interview 15120. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Noe H., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He describes his large, extended family; summers with relatives in Myślenice and Jawornik; German invasion; expulsion from their apartment in October 1939; escaping to Myślenice in January 1940; forced labor to obtain rations; arrest and imprisonment in April 1940; transfer to Pustków; a Polish civilian worker conveying messages to his family; the Pole facilitating his escape with four others to De̜bica; reunion with his mother in Tarnów; hiding in Jawornik, Bochnia, and Myślenice; entering Płaszów in May 1941; slave labor building railroads; transfer to Prokocim; return to Płaszów; learning his parents had been deported; briefly escaping; hiding with a Polish friend's aunt; returning to Płaszów; transfer to Skarżysko in 1943; slave labor with toxic chemicals; volunteering as a painter; assignment exhuming and burning bodies; transfer to Buchenwald, then Schlieben; assignment to a HASAG fire brigade; assigning sick prisoners to the fire brigade, thus saving them; pulling large artillery to Falkenberg; train transport to Bautzen; liberation by Polish-Soviet troops; traveling to Chemnitz, then Kraków; acquiring papers from the Red Cross; illegally entering Czechoslovakia with other DPs; arrest in Ostrava; a Jewish officer arranging their escape; working for the Joint; obtaining travel documents in Prague; living in Munich and Regensburg displaced persons camp; attending an ORT school; marriage in 1947; recognizing a Nazi from Płaszów in Regensburg (he was not arrested due to lack of corroborating witnesses); and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. H. notes difficulty believing his own experiences and surviving due to luck. He shows photographs, documents, and his camp uniform.

April 23, 2004

Noe H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4269). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Noe H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4269). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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