Alexander M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3302
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Alexander M., who was born in 1929. He recalls a happy, comfortable childhood in Sharhorod; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; antisemitic measures; his mother's death; his arrest; convincing the Germans he was not Jewish; forced labor cooking and cleaning for German troops; billeting of German soldiers in his family's home; one German providing them with food; occupation by Romanian troops; their refusal to murder Jews on German orders; ghettoization; overcrowding; starvation; hiding to avoid forced labor; deportation to Odesa; escaping and returning to Sharhorod; buying a radio for partisans from Romanian troops; trading on the black market; brutal Ukrainian police; ignorance of outside events; the war's end; his father's return from the military; studying in Chernivt︠s︡i; marriage in 1949; and the births of two children. Mr. M. discusses frequent encounters with partisans and his brother's emigration to Israel.

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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • M., Alexander, -- 1929-

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Hiding.
  • Partisans.
  • Romanian occupation.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Escapes.
  • Child survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Sharhorod.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Czernowitz (Austria)
  • Sharhorod ghetto.
  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Odesa (Ukraine)
  • Sharhorod (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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