Oral history interview with Ya'akov Movshovich
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Movshovich in Israel on January 11, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Movshovich, Ya'akov, 1925-
- Ya'akov Movshovich
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Kapos.
- Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camp--Liberation--Europe.
- Mieroszów (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Forced labor.
- Prisoners of war--Italy.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Refugee camps--Poland--Mieroszów.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
Genre
- Music.
- Oral History