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Blum, David

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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

 

David Blum was born in Mielec, Poland in 1921 and raised in Jarosław. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; emigration to Brussels at age nine; no discrimination; assisting German-Jewish refugees; German invasion; leaving for France with his parents and brother; living in Bordeaux; fleeing to Montpellier upon German arrival; moving to Agde; his father's return to Belgium and subsequent deportation in 1942 (they never saw him again); joining Mouvement des jeunesses sionistes; organizing escapes for Jews to the free zone; being warned of his own arrest; non-Jews assisting him to escape; hiding for two weeks; obtaining false papers from the Jewish scouts (E.I.F.); learning of his mother's death; he and his brother living in a scout home in Polignac; arrest; escaping from Septfonds; fleeing to Italian-occupied Nice; being joined by his brother; working with the Jewish underground in Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Valdieri; arrest in Toulouse; incarceration in Noé; escape with a prisoner who recognized him from Armée juive; working for the Jewish resistance in Limoges; burning a building in Glénic to destroy records of Jews; military forays against the Germans; arrest; confessing to be Jewish, hoping to avoid execution as a Resistant; days of torture; deportation to Buchenwald, Dora, and Rottleberode; slave labor; and liberation from a death march in May 1945.

(Copyright: Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies - Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/070
Date interview : 12/06/1995
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 6h32
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Hessel Daalder
Cameraman : Patricia Di Michele
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : Oui
Séquençage interview : Oui

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Armée Juive | Buchenwald | Corps-franc de la Montagne Noire | Juif / Juive | Marche / train de la mort | Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste (M.J.S.) | Noé (camp) | Organisation Juive de Combat (O.J.C.) | Résistant / Résistante | Rottleberode / Dora-Mittelbau | Septfonds (camp d’internement)

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