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• Author/Creator:L., Nathan, 1910-
  
• Title:Nathan L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-856) [videorecording] / interviewed by Susan Millen and Dana L. Kline, June 3, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (57 min.) : col.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.0856)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Lazinger, Nathan. Interview 17523. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Nathan L., who was born in Pilica, Poland in 1910. He recalls moving to Sosnowiec; training as a shoemaker (his father's trade); marriage and the birth of a son and daughter; his wife's death prior to the war; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; and transfer to Breslau. Mr. L. describes conditions in Breslau; receiving packages from his family for about a year; being assigned to work as a shoemaker by a friend, to which he attributes his survival; and learning of the deaths of his children. He relates incarceration in many camps including Breslau-Neukirch, Gross Rosen, Fünfteichen (where he worked in a Krupp armaments factory), Markstädt, Dachau, and Buchenwald (where he buried photographs of his children which he never found); liberation from a train in Bavaria by United States troops on May 5, 1945; life in Feldafing; marriage and the birth of his son; emigration to the United States in 1945; establishing a family business; and the birth of his second son. Mr. L. discusses the importance of luck and being a shoemaker to his survival; his desire to return to Poland (his sons do not want him to make this trip); nightmares about the war years; and his "very long story."
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Nathan L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-856). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:L., Nathan, 1910-
  Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
  Markstädt (Concentration camp)
  Dachau (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Children--Death.
  Nightmares.
  Refugee camps.
  Poland.
  Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  Pilica (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Breslau-Neukirch (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Occupation:Shoemakers.
  
• Also listed under:Millen, Susan, interviewer.
  Kline, Dana L., interviewer.