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Morris R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1897) interviewed by Sara Moss Herz and Lucille B. Ritvo,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1897

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Morris R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922. He recalls ghettoization; forced labor; hunger; selections and deportations; his mother's death in 1941; transfer to Częstochowa; prisoners sharing food and assisting each other to meet production quotas; and transfer to Buchenwald. Mr. R. describes forced labor for HASAG; Allied bombings; carrying corpses; assistance from priests who were prisoners; a death march; his "safe" job pulling the officers' wagon; a local man preventing the guards from killing the prisoners; and liberation by American troops. He recounts recuperating; living in the Feldafing displaced persons camp; emigrating to Israel, then in 1965 to the United States; and subsequent visits to concentration camps and Łódź. Mr. R. discusses health problems resulting from his experience and numerous details of atrocities and brutalities committed against Jews in the ghetto and camps.
Author/Creator: R., Morris, 1922-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
Interview Date: November 18, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Morris R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1897). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 4 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Łódź. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish ghettos. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Death marches. Oral histories (document genres) R., Morris,--1922- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (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/1065455
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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