Joseph M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Szczakowa, Poland, in 1922. He speaks of family life before the war; the mistreatment and killings of Jews at the beginning of the war; his 1940 deportation to Sakrau, where he was a slave laborer; and his transfer to Gross Masselwitz in 1942. He describes a typical day in Neukirch, a labor camp he was sent to in 1943, and conditions in the camps to which he was subsequently sent: Marksta?dt, Schmiedeberg, Klettendorf, and Waldenburg, where he was liberated by the Russians in 1945. He discusses his postwar return home; his reunion with his sister; leaving Poland for the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, where he met his wife; revenge taken by former prisoners against former Kapos; discovery of a surviving brother who had been imprisoned in Russia and emigration to the United States.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (vhs)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Joseph, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- MarkstaĚdt (Concentration camp)
- Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Refugee camps.
- Revenge.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Waldenburg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Klettendorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Szczakowa (Poland)
- Schmiedeberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Neukirch (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc