Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Michael M., who was born in Apa, Romania in 1917. He recalls attending cheder; his mother's death when he was thirteen; learning shoemaking and working in Seini until 1939; service in the Romanian army; Hungarian occupation in 1940; transfer to a Hungarian slave labor battalion; forced labor in Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Dej, Budapest, Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; deserting in 1944 and hiding for three weeks; recapture in Pribeník, and placement in another battalion; the commander's efforts to protect "his" Jews; marching to camps including Graz, Eisenerz, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen; and liberation. Mr. M. recounts recuperating in Wels; reunion with his sister in Apa; fleeing to Vienna in 1947; living in displaced persons camps in the Rothschild Hospital and in Linz; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. He notes his desire to forget his wartime experience.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 8, 1993.
- Locale
- Hungary
Romania
Apa (Romania)
Baia Mare (Romania)
Dej (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
Pribeník (Slovakia)
Seini (Romania) - Cite As
- Michael M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2149). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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 (48 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hungarian occupation.
Hiding. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary. Romania. Apa (Romania) Baia Mare (Romania) Dej (Romania) Budapest (Hungary) Pribeník (Slovakia) Seini (Romania) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. M., Michael,--1917- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1072611
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1072611
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