Maurice M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Maurice M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his confusion at the arrival of Jews expelled from Germany; German invasion; deportation to a labor camp in November 1939; his mother arranging his escape to Tarno?w by bribing a German; living with his brother and sister in Niepo?omice; an emotional meeting with his mother outside the ghetto with assistance from a German (he never saw her again); digging mass graves and burying corpses in Wieliczka; transfer to P?aszo?w; working for a cable factory; joining his brother in the Krako?w ghetto with assistance from the factory head; assistance from a non-Jewish janitor of the school he had attended; transfer with his brother to P?aszo?w; worsening conditions when Amon Goeth became the Kommandant; killings and public hangings; disinterring and burning corpses; and evacuation with the Schindler group in November 1944, which saved his life. Mr. M. discusses the importance to his survival of sustaining relations with his brother; the lack of value of human life in P?aszo?w; and the trauma of forced separation from his family (he is the sole survivor).

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