Morris G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0808
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1914, three months after his father's death. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-19), Mr. G. recounts his mother's remarriage; moving to Cze?stochowa, Be?dzin, then Warsaw; working in a bakery; moving to ?o?dz?; living with a cousin; ghettoization; working in the kitchen of the Grunow-Spiegelberge labor camp; transfer back to the ghetto, then Kreising; public executions; burying prisoners in mass graves; liberation by French troops; living briefly in Ostrach; assistance from United States troops; traveling to Heidenheim with a group; establishment of a displaced persons camp; traveling with a group to the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Morris G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-19), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • G., Morris, -- 1914-

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
  • Jaworzno (Concentration camp)
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Death marches.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Kreising (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Poznań (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Bisingen (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Heidenheim (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Ostrach (Germany)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Grunow-Spiegelberge (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Praszka (Poland)
  • Częstochowa (Poland)
  • Będzin (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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