Jack M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1555
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending cheder, then public school; visiting his grandmother in Chlewiska; apprenticeship as a tailor at age fourteen; working in Warsaw; military service in Skierniewice from 1937 to 1939; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (he perished); slave labor in Jo?sefo?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his family's deportation; incarceration in Wolano?w, Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Sulejo?w, Laura, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Allach; slave labor in HASAG factories; liberation from an evacuation train; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; hearing from his uncle through the Red Cross; and emigration to the United States. Mr. M. discusses details of prewar life; some guards who helped him; the deaths of his entire family; and a 1980 trip to Poland. He sings songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish.

Extent and Medium

5 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

  • M., Jack, -- 1913-

Corporate Bodies

  • Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
  • Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Laura (Concentration camp)
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie)
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forced labor.
  • Folk songs, Yiddish.
  • Folk songs, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Folk songs, Hebrew.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Sulejów (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Wolanów (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Jósefów (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Szydłowiec ghetto.
  • Skierniewice (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Chlewiska (Poland)
  • Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Allach (Germany : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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