Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Praszka, Poland in 1914, three months after his father's death. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-19), Mr. G. recounts his mother's remarriage; moving to Częstochowa, Będzin, then Warsaw; working in a bakery; moving to Łódź; living with a cousin; ghettoization; working in the kitchen of the Grunow-Spiegelberge labor camp; transfer back to the ghetto, then Kreising; public executions; burying prisoners in mass graves; liberation by French troops; living briefly in Ostrach; assistance from United States troops; traveling to Heidenheim with a group; establishment of a displaced persons camp; traveling with a group to the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
- Interview Date
- April 27, 1986.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Praszka (Poland)
Częstochowa (Poland)
Będzin (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Ostrach (Germany) - Cite As
- Morris G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-808). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related material: Morris G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-19), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 47 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos. Death marches. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Refugee camps. Poland. Praszka (Poland) Częstochowa (Poland) Będzin (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Ostrach (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) G., Morris,--1914- Jaworzno (Concentration camp) Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294286
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294286
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