Moshe B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Rymanów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; his brothers studying in Pinsk (they were exiled to Siberia by the Soviets); German invasion; selection for forced labor; his family's deportation; transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto; deportation to Pustków in 1943; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944, then Buna/Monowitz two weeks later; train transfer to Mauthausen; many deaths en route; Czechs throwing them food; transfer to Hannover; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; taking scraps from the garbage; liberation by British troops; returning home; reunion with one brother, a Soviet soldier, in Katowice; traveling to Prague; living in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; joining a Zionist group; emigration to the United States, with assistance from the Joint; draft into the U.S. military; being stationed in Ulm; discharge; traveling to Israel; marriage; and the births of three sons. He sings several songs and shows photographs.
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
- B., Moshe, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Pustków (Concentration camp)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Poland -- Rzeszów.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Rymanów (Poland)
- Ulm (Germany)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Rzeszów ghetto.
- Hannover (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat