Morris F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2114
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, the oldest of three children. He recalls his father's successful business; his close extended family; their orthodoxy; German invasion; his father's military draft; learning he had been killed; slave labor building a tram line; his mother's arrest; traveling with his siblings to Warsaw to join family; learning his mother had been released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; supporting his mother and siblings; pervasive deaths; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944; separation from his family (he never saw them again); public hangings of escapees; brief hospitalization for an injury; a death march and train transport to Dachau in January 1945; evacuation by train; abandonment by the guards; a local woman hiding his small group from German soldiers; liberation by United States troops; living in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Feldafing displaced persons camp; locating his father's brother in England; joining him in June 1947; learning ladies' tailoring; marriage to a survivor; and raising two sons.

Extent and Medium

4 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 can only be used for educational purposes.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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