Morris R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in Krosno, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in a village near Krosno; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; his brother fleeing to Russia; deportation to the Krosno ghetto; his father's death from a beating; transfer to Rzeszo?w labor camp; escaping with his mother back to the Krosno ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w (he never saw his mother again); slave labor in a shoe factory; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk one month later; slave labor digging tunnels; a death march to Ebensee in 1945; Allied bombings; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Italy with assistance from the Jewish Brigade; moving to Linz displaced persons camp to join his three sisters and a brother; traveling to France in 1947; and emigration to the United States with a cousin's assistance. Mr. R. discusses maintaining hope most of the time in concentration camps; continuing nightmares resulting from his experiences; and sharing his story with his children and grandchildren.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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People
- R., Morris, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mothers and sons.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Refugee camps.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Krosno (Krosno)
- Forced labor.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Nightmares.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- France.
- Krosno ghetto.
- Krosno (Krosno, Poland)
- Italy.
- Rzeszów (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Linz (Austria : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat