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Moses L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2394) interviewed by Nat Arkin and Janice Gordon,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2394

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Moses L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, a Polish citizen and one of three children. He recounts attending public school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; visiting his wife's family in Oświęcim in 1938; Poland revoking his Polish citizenship; being declared stateless; hiding during Kristallnacht; obtaining visas for the United States; being ordered to leave Germany; arrest with his father; his release because he had a U.S. visa; his father's deportation to Sachsenhausen; one sister's emigration to England; deportation to Sachsenhausen; staying in the same barrack as his father; beatings and humiliating treatment; his wife obtaining his release by booking passage to the U.S.; arrival in New York via Rotterdam; learning his father had perished in Sachsenhausen and his mother and sister were deported in 1943 (they never returned); and his surviving sister joining him after the war.
Author/Creator: L., Moses, 1912-
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992
Interview Date: February 21, 1992.
Locale: Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Oświęcim (Poland)
Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Cite As: Moses L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2394). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Arkin, Nat, interviewer.
Gordon, Janice, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (29 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Hiding.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Kristallnacht, 1938. Fathers and sons. Jewish refugees. Jews--Migrations. Germany. Berlin (Germany) Oświęcim (Poland) Rotterdam (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) L., Moses,--1912- Sachsenhausen (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/4318153
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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