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Author/Creator:N., Isaac, 1915-
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Title:Isaac N. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2027) [videorecording] / interviewed by Rayzl Kalifowicz-Waletsky, March 11, 1992.
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Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 25 min.) : 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.2027)
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:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Isaac N., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1915. He recounts participation in Poʻalei Zion including organizing summer camps and meeting his future wife; German invasion; a futile attempt to escape to Warsaw; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; contact with Ḥayim Rumkowski while establishing a soup kitchen; his belief that Rumkowski prolonged the ghetto's existence; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother's selection for death; transfer with his father and brother to Dachau, then Kaufering; his father's death; transfer to Utting, then back to Dachau; liberation from a forced march by United States troops; hospitalization with his brother in Bad Tölz; transfer to Feldafing; reunion with his future wife and sister; marriage; becoming administrator of Föhrenwald in 1951; and emigrating to the United States in 1957. Mr. N. shows photographs.
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Cite as:Isaac N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2027). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:N., Isaac, 1915-
Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers--Po'alei Zion.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Kaufering (Concentration camp)
Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Łódź.
Forced labor.
Fathers and sons.
Brothers.
Refugee camps.
Poland.
Łódź (Poland)
Bad Tölz (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
Łódź ghetto.
Utting (Germany : Concentration camp)
Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Kalifowicz-Waletsky, Rayzl, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286027