Moshe F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moshe F., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1913, the youngest of eight children. He recalls the deaths of his father and mother; living with his grandmother in Wladyslawow (Russocice), with uncles in Be?dzin, then with uncles in ?o?dz?; working in a bakery; starting his own business; marriage; his son's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; working in a public kitchen; deportation with his wife and son to Auschwitz; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Kaufering; reunion with a brother; working in the camp hospital and disposing of corpses; sharing extra food with others; liberation; living in a displaced persons camp with his brother, then in Munich; marriage; his son's birth; emigration to Israel to join his sister; moving to the United States; and eventually owning his own bakery. Mr. F. discusses details of ghetto and camp life. He sings a song a friend wrote in Auschwitz and shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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. This testimony is in Yiddish with some English.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Moshe, -- 1913-
Corporate Bodies
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Children -- Death.
- Wife -- Death.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Łódź ghetto.
- Uniejów (Poland)
- Russocice (Poland)
- Poland.
- Munich (Germany)
- Israel.
- Będzin (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat