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Author/Creator:V., Charles, 1913-
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Title:Charles V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1981) [videorecording] / interviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Rina Margos and Jean-Michel Chaumont, May 13, 1992.
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Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1981)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:Associated material: Van, Charles. Interview 41299. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
This testimony is in French.
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Charles V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. He recalls feeling Belgian rather than Jewish; military service beginning in 1937; German invasion; capture; one year imprisonment as a Belgian POW; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; forced closing of the family business; hiding with his parents and sister; denunciation as a Jew in June 1944; imprisonment; transfer to Malines, then Auschwitz (his family remained hidden); slave labor; fierce struggles for food; his sense of complete isolation; willing himself to forget his past and family; a Belgian nurse saving his life; public executions; learning to play french horn in order to be in the orchestra for extra food and protection; playing eighteen hours daily; Romanies in the orchestra being killed when the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) was liquidated; the death march to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Ravensburg beginning in January 1945; disappearance of guards; assistance from French POWs; return to Brussels; and reunion with his family. Mr. V. discusses camp life, including intergroup relations; relief he was alone so he did not have to see relatives suffer; the pervasive presence of corpses in Gross-Rosen; refusal to eat mutton (it reminds him of the odor of Auschwitz); and many relatives killed during the Holocaust.
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Cite as:Charles V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1981). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:V., Charles, 1913-
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Malines (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Belgian.
Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
Concentration camps--Songs and music.
Forced labor.
Identification (Religion)
Prisoners of war.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons,Belgian.
Death marches.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Belgium.
Brussels (Belgium)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
False papers.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Ravensburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
Auschwitz Orchestra.
Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Thanassekos, Yannis, interviewer.
Margos, Rina, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4285430