Moses K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and enlisting in the Jewish Brigade of the British army. He recounts postings, beginning in 1941, in Egypt, Libya, and Greece; separation from his unit near Piraeus; capture by Germans; escape; hiding with a Greek-American woman and others for two years with aid from the underground; traveling to England; and emigration to the United States in 1945.
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
- K., Moses, -- 1918-1996,
Corporate Bodies
- Haganah (Organization)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
- Jews -- Palestine.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, British.
- Prisoners of war -- Greece.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Prisons -- Palestine.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Jerusalem.
- Acre (Israel)
- Lv́iv (Ukraine)
- İzmir (Turkey)
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Constanța (Romania)
- Piraeus (Greece)
- Drohobych (Ukraine)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat