Max L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3484
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Max L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1923, the youngest of three children. He recounts his large extended family; his father's death in 1926; attending the Katzenelson school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; joining the Polish military; fleeing to Warsaw; fighting in Mszczonów and Warsaw; surrender; returning home; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; his sister's hospitalization; retrieving her when warned of the hospital's liquidation; selection to clean the empty ghetto; deportation to Oranienburg, then Sachsenhausen; hospitalization; assistance from a non-Jewish prisoner-doctor; working in the hospital; transfer to Königs Wusterhausen; slave labor building a factory, burying corpses of German soldiers, and helping wounded Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; antisemitic harassment by Poles; traveling to Berlin to be with his sister; living in Salzburg displaced persons camp, then Föhrenwald; marriage; working for UNRRA then the Joint in Gauting; his daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; and his son's birth.

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

  • L., Max, -- 1923-

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
  • Königs Wusterhausen (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
  • Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Draft -- Poland.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Forced labor.

Places

  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Gauting (Germany)
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Mszczonów (Poland)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Salzburg (Austria : Refugee camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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