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Author/Creator:B., Henri, 1927-
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Title:Henri B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2154) [videorecording] / interviewed by Claudine Drame and Geneviève Decrop, February 4, 1992.
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Published/Created:Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr., 20 min.) : col.
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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.2154)
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:Related publication: Una escuela de construcción en Auschwitz / el 43,422 relata, Charles Papiernik ; dibujos de Shlomo Selinger ; prefacio del profesor Emile Papiernik ; postfacio de Henry Bulawko ; versión castellana, León Berestovoy. -- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Mila, c1994.
Associated material : Odette B. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-2841), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Israel P. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-1640), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Jacques A. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-2153), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Simon G. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-3445), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Desire H. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-2095), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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 Henri B., who was born in Paris, France in 1927, one of nine children. He recalls their evacuation to Maine-et-Loire in August 1939; their conversion to Catholicism; his strong Catholic faith; arrest with his mother and older siblings on July 15, 1942; internment in Angers; his mother's release and father's arrival; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his father and brother; assignment to the masonry school; slave labor doing construction; learning his father and brother had been killed; remaining with French friends; hiding injuries during selections; transport to Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, then Ohrdruf; once bringing corpses to Buchenwald; sharing extra food with his friends; escaping with assistance from a Hungarian guard, French POW, and German butcher; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; transfer to Eisenbach; repatriation with POWs; reunion with his family in Paris; their reluctance to ask him about his experiences; recovering from tuberculosis; attending medical school; a daughter's birth; marriage; and his other daughters' births. Mr. B. discusses camp life including intergroup relations and friends who aided his survival; losing his belief in Catholicism and identifying himself as a Jew after returning; sharing his experiences with his daughters; reluctance to share memories of suffering with non-survivors; and showing Ohrdruf to Generals Patton and Bradley.
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Cite as:Henri B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2154). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945.
B., Henri, 1927-
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981.
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Christian converts from Judaism.
Forced labor.
Brothers.
Prisoners of war--Germany.
Faith.
Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
Fathers and sons.
Friendship.
Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
Escapes.
Identification (Religion)
France.
Paris (France)
Maine-et-Loire (France)
Angers (France)
Eisenbach (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
Decrop, Geneviève, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286398