Jacques M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacques M., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls living with his mother and sisters in a Jewish neighborhood; attending public school; German invasion; ghettoization; providing his family with food by working as a messenger; being caught in a round-up; forced labor in a munitions factory in Cze?stochowa; deportation to Buchenwald; slave labor at a munitions factory in Sonneberg; a circuitous death march; disappearance of the guards; liberation by United States troops; returning to ?o?dz?; moving to Bamberg; and emigrating to France. Mr. M. reflects on the importance of luck to his survival; the pain of having to see the suffering of women and children in the ghetto; difficulties he had adjusting to postwar life; and the importance of his family. He relates experiences of other family members and shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Jacques, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- Child survivors.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Łódź ghetto.
- Sonneberg (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Bamberg (Germany)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat