Gabriel M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gabriel M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1934. Mr. M. recalls his prewar neighborhood; close family ties with Jews and Christians; German occupation; his family's strong Polish sympathies; daily life in the ghetto; his sense of loss at the death of a friend; the "nightmarish, unreal" feeling of the occupation; the role of war news as a tenuous link with reality; relocating when the Germans reduced the ghetto's size in mid-1942; his father's role in the ghetto uprising; and escaping with his mother in early 1943, aided by a Polish policeman active in rescuing Jews. He tells of being hidden in various places; hiding with ten Jews active in the resistance; living on forged papers; apprehension and internment with his mother at Preussenau during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; escaping on false papers to Krako?w and Zakopane; liberation by Soviet forces; emigration with Youth Aliyah to Palestine in 1946; and the "different reality" of Jews in Palestine and their initial reluctance to confront the Holocaust.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)