Overview
- Summary
- 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.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1996
- Interview Date
- October 4, 1996.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Mszczonów (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Gauting (Germany) - Cite As
- Max L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3484). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 21 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Postwar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Draft--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Mszczonów (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Gauting (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) L., Max,--1923- World Hashomer Hatzair. Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Königs Wusterhausen (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Föhrenwald (Displaced persons 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/4297625
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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