top of page

<message>

<PARTNERlINK>
IMG_7512.jpg

Get Transcript

Read the transcript online.

View Tape 1

Name

Born:

N/A

Place of Birth:

N/A

Date of Interview:

01/12/90

Place of Interview:

Interviewed by:

Name (Clickable)

5.jpg

It looks like this interview is hosted by one of our partners

Please click the link below to be redirected...

Visit Partner Website

INTERVIEW:

<name>

Born:

00/00/0000

Place of Birth:

Dukla

<name>

Born:

00/00/0000

Place of Birth:

Institution:

<partnerName>

Collection:

Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive

Date of Interview:

01/12/90

Interviewed By:

Elliot Perry

View Tape 2
View Tape 3
View Tape 4
View Tape 5
View Tape 6
View Tape 7
View Tape 8
View Tape 9
View Tape 10
View Tape 11
View Tape 12
View Tape 13
View Tape 14
View Tape 15
View Tape 16
View Tape 17
View Tape 18
View Tape 19

Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Lipa T. who was born in Dukla, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic violence; attending Polish school and cheder; enjoying Shabbat and holiday observances; his parents both working; their relative affluence; his father's military draft; German invasion; forced relocation with his mother and sister to Rymanów; returning home; finding all their possessions looted by neighbors; forced quarry labor; his father's return after Germany invaded the Soviet Union; being sent to Kraków with the quarry workers (he never saw his family again); slave labor constructing buildings in Wola Duchachka; transfer to Płaszów; assistance from a Jewish doctor when he had typhus; random shootings; developing \cunning and survival skills\ despite feeling he was in a \soul-destroying place\; transfer to Częstochowa, then Skarżysko in mid-1943; finding a friend in order to look after one another; transfer to Buchenwald; prisoners killing the brutal kapos from Skarżysko; transfer to Schlieben two weeks later; slave labor building barracks and in a munitions factory; a prisoner official beating him in front of a German when he was smuggling food, which saved his life, since he would have been shot; and transfer to Theresienstadt in March 1945. Mr. T. discusses inter-group relations in camps and his feelings at various times.
View Tape 20
View Tape 21
View Tape 22
bottom of page