Maurice D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Maurice D., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland in 1924. He describes his Orthodox family; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother to Warsaw; returning to Nowe Miasto; slave labor in the ghetto and in a camp in East Prussia; deportation with his family to Birkenau via Plonsk in November 1942; separation from his parents and sisters upon arrival; transfer with his brother to Auschwitz; working the night shift in the Canada Kommando; transfer with his brother to I.G. Farben in Buna/Monowitz in 1943; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; building tunnels in Buchenwald; jumping from a train evacuating Ohrdruf; hiding in a Czech village with assistance from the local people; traveling to Prague via Plzen? after liberation; learning of the Kielce pogrom in Katowice; obtaining permission to go to France from Prague; reunion with his brother in Paris; contacting his uncle in Rhode Island; and emigration to the United States in 1946. Mr. D. recounts marriage; the births of his children and grandchildren; and a recent visit to Nowe Miasto, Auschwitz, and Monowitz with his wife. He discusses relations between different ethnic groups in the camps.
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (betacam sp)
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
- D., Maurice, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Brothers.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Nowe Miasto (WojewoĚdztwo Mazowieckie)
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Nowe Miasto ghetto.
- Katowice (Poland)
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Paris (France)
- Nowe Miasto (WojewoĚdztwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat