Morris S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris S., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland, in 1921. He recalls growing up in a middle-class family of seven children; his father's bakery business; German invasion; killings of Jews; creation of the Judenrat; ghettoization; leaving the ghetto for forced labor; a friend's death in a mass killing; liquidation of the ghetto; forced labor with two sisters and one brother in Racho?w; transfer to Buchenwald, then a camp near Dresden; a death march; escaping with his brother; separating from him to avoid being caught (he never saw him again); posing as a non-Jew to join Polish forced laborers; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr S. recounts traveling to Dresden; returning to Cze?stochowa; reunion with two sisters; leaving for Germany after hearing about the Kielce pogrom; living in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage to an Auschwitz survivor; the birth of their child; and their emigration to the United States. He expresses his great appreciation for the United States and notes his participation in survivor groups.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Morris, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Jews -- Poland -- Cze̜stochowa.
- Jews -- Poland -- Rachów.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish councils.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
- Mass killings.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Brothers.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Rachów ghetto.
- Cze̜stochowa ghetto.
- Poland.
- Dresden (Germany)
- Cze̜stochowa (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat