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• Author/Creator:L., Naftali, 1926-
  
• Title:Naftali L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3241) [videorecording], May 14, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (approximately 8 hr.) : col.
  

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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.3241)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Hebrew.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Access and use:This testimony can only be viewed by Yale students and faculty at Yale University. The testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to Piotrków when his father became its rabbi in 1935; his bar mitzvah in Kraków in 1939; German invasion in September; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father having to collect money to meet German demands; hiding the synagogue's Torahs; an influx of Jews from the surrounding area; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; slave labor; Polish non-Jews protecting him; public hangings; contacting his family; his arranged escape with a Polish baker who made deliveries to Auschwitz; hiding in his parents' house; slave labor in Difi in Bugaj; his mother hiding with his younger siblings during round-ups; his father volunteering for deportation to Treblinka to be with his congregation; his mother running a soup kitchen; deportation with his five-year-old brother to Częstochowa; slave labor in a factory; others helping him care for his brother; transport to Buchenwald in January 1944; bribing an official to place his brother in a children's barrack; slave labor in a quarry; visiting his brother; transfer to Dora; sneaking into a transport to Buchenwald; observing Hungarian Jews praying; separation from his brother during the evacuation; escaping from the train; returning to Buchenwald; prisoners taking over; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; transfer with his brother to Normandy; and their illegal emigration to Palestine. Mr. L. notes his brother, Israel Lau, became a Chief Rabbi in Israel.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Naftali L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3241). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:L., Naftali , 1926-
  Laʼu, Y. M. (Yiśraʼel Meʼir)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
  Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  Dora (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.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  Bar mitzvah.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
  Forced labor.
  Escapes.
  Brothers.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Poland.
  Kraków (Poland)
  Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
  Normandy (France)
  Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Piotrków ghetto.
  Difi in Bugaj (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)