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• Author/Creator:B., René, 1916-
  
• Title:René B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4011) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt and Hessel Daalder, September 20, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr., 31 min.) : 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.4011)
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• Notes:This testimony is in French.
  2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of René B., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Belgium in 1916. He recalls apprenticeship as a butcher; military service for a year beginning in 1936 in Tournai; marriage; military recall in 1939; capture by the Germans in Louvain; transport to a POW camp in Cologne; forced labor doing farm work; transfer to several POW camps; separation of Flemish and Walloon Belgian prisoners; removal of Jewish prisoners (they did not know their fate); receiving packages from the United States, England, and the Red Cross; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Odesa, Gdańsk, and Marseille; a warm welcome; divorce and remarriage; excommunication due to his divorce; joining the socialist party; and working as a rural constable. Mr. B. notes speaking freely about his experiences; learning of concentration camps after the war; continued hostility toward Germans; and his strong Belgian patriotism.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:René B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4011). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., René, 1916-
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian.
  Prisoners of war--Germany.
  Belgium.
  Tournai (Belgium)
  Louvain (Belgium)
  Odesa (Ukraine)
  Gdańsk (Poland)
  Marseille (France)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
  Danzig (Germany)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
  Daalder, Hessel, interviewer.