Morris B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's poverty; primitive living conditions; pervasive antisemitism; a tailor's apprenticeship; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Przemys?l; returning home; forced labor; ghettoization; transfer to Pustko?w; return to the ghetto; transfer with a cousin to P?aszo?w; working as a tailor; public shootings of escapees; transfer to Zakopane, then Mauthausen; slave labor in the quarry; transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; observing cannibalism; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Salzburg, then Rome and Bari, intending to emigrate to Palestine; reunion with his brother; black market dealings; marriage to a Catholic; and emigration to the United States. Mr. B. discusses details of camp life; assuming he would die in camp, but living due to his curiosity; nightmares; his wife leaving him; suicide attempts; and shielding his children from his story.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Morris, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Pustków (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Nightmares.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Cannibalism.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Rome (Italy)
- Bari (Italy)
- Tarnów ghetto.
- Zakopane (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Poland.
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat