Morris B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Drahovo, Ukraine (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy when he was born, later Czechoslovakia), one of eight children. He recalls his father's service in World War I; his death; leaving school to support his family; serving in the Czech army; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion in Kos?ice, Debrecen, and Serbia; returning home in 1944; transfer with his family to Sokirnitsa; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family (he never saw his mother again); transfer to Buchenwald, Dora, and Nordhausen; reunion with two brothers; a severe beating; transfer to Bergen-Belsen with one brother in February 1945; their physical deterioration; receiving extra soup for placing corpses on pyres; liberation by British troops in April; hospitalization in Gotland, Sweden; marriage; working in Stockholm; the birth of a daughter; and emigration to the United States in 1947.

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