Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sol M., who was born in Radzanów, Poland in 1920, one of eight children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in Mława; public hangings; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz with a brother and two sisters in November 1942; slave labor with his brother; his brother's murder; praying on Yom Kippur; hearing rumors in July 1944 that Hitler was dead; contact with his sister; learning from her that their younger sister was dead; a death march; transport to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, then Crawinkel; evacuation to Buchenwald in April 1945; transport to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; traveling to Berlin, then Łódź; reunion with his brother-in-law and sister in Mława; traveling to Zeilsheim; emigration to the United States; marriage; and becoming a cantor. Mr. M. notes his memories are fragmentary; lack of emotion to his brother's death in Auschwitz; sharing his experiences with his son when he was seven; and a recent visit to Poland. He shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 22, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Mława
Radzanów nad Wkrą (Poland)
Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Łódź (Poland)
Berlin (Germany) - Cite As
- Sol M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1784). 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
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Mława. Jewish ghettos. Brothers. Brothers and sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Poland. Radzanów nad Wkrą (Poland) Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Łódź (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) M., Sol,--1920- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Crawinkel (Concentration camp)
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/4296138
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296138
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