Moses L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moses L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, a Polish citizen and one of three children. He recounts attending public school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; visiting his wife's family in Os?wie?cim in 1938; Poland revoking his Polish citizenship; being declared stateless; hiding during Kristallnacht; obtaining visas for the United States; being ordered to leave Germany; arrest with his father; his release because he had a U.S. visa; his father's deportation to Sachsenhausen; one sister's emigration to England; deportation to Sachsenhausen; staying in the same barrack as his father; beatings and humiliating treatment; his wife obtaining his release by booking passage to the U.S.; arrival in New York via Rotterdam; learning his father had perished in Sachsenhausen and his mother and sister were deported in 1943 (they never returned); and his surviving sister joining him after the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- L., Moses, -- 1912-
Corporate Bodies
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Fathers and sons.
- Jewish refugees.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Germany.
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- OsĚwięcim (Poland)
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat