Morris F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1914, one of eight children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending yeshivas in Kerets'ky and another town; working for his uncle in Berehove; frequent business trips to Khust; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; slave labor in Uz?h?horod, Sighet, then I?A?sini?a?; brief reunion with relatives; transfer to Kolomyi?a?; slave labor moving stones and dirt; transfer to Vinnyt?s?i?a? to work in a munitions factory, among other jobs; praying with others during Yom Kippur; transfer to Khmel?nyt?s??kyi? , Valki, then Kharkiv; many deaths; transfer to the front at Minsk, Pinsk, and other locations; being taken to Budapest by an officer; arrest and beating by Arrow Cross members; transfer to a brick factory; deportation to Buchenwald; many deaths en route; slave labor repairing bombed rail tracks; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; recuperating in Plzen? and Prague; returning home; antisemitic threats by a neighbor; marriage; moving to Ansbach displaced persons camp; the births of two children; emigration to the United States in 1949; and assistance from the Joint. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- F., Morris, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Nyilaskeresztes Párt.
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Pinsk (Belarus)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Plzeň (Czech Republic)
- Ansbach (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Kerets'ky (Ukraine)
- Austria.
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Berehove (Ukraine)
- Sighet (Romania)
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Kolomyi︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- I︠A︡sini︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Valky (Kharkivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)
- Khmelʹnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat