Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Szydłowiec, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending cheder, then public school; visiting his grandmother in Chlewiska; apprenticeship as a tailor at age fourteen; working in Warsaw; military service in Skierniewice from 1937 to 1939; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (he perished); slave labor in Jósefów; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; his family's deportation; incarceration in Wolanów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Sulejów, Laura, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Allach; slave labor in HASAG factories; liberation from an evacuation train; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; hearing from his uncle through the Red Cross; and emigration to the United States. Mr. M. discusses details of prewar life; some guards who helped him; the deaths of his entire family; and a 1980 trip to Poland. He sings songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- June 20 and July 17, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Chlewiska (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Skierniewice (Poland) - Cite As
- Jack M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1555). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (1 hr., 43 min. and 3 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Folk songs, Hebrew. Folk songs, Yiddish. Folk songs, Polish. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie) Poland. Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Chlewiska (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Skierniewice (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) M., Jack,--1913- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Laura (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
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/4295467
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4295467
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