Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Charles M., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Hebrew and public schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in a Bundist children's group; German invasion; ghettoization in October 1939; working in a forced labor camp in 1940, then in a factory near the ghetto; mass shootings, which included his mother and brother; and his father's deportation. Mr. M. recounts deportation in 1942 to Ostrowiec; transport to Birkenau, then Auschwitz, in 1944; the death march to Melk in early 1945; slave labor digging underground bunkers; transfer to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops in early May; traveling to Italy; Zionist training on a farm; moving to the Feldafing displaced persons' camp; being smuggled to Brussels in 1946; living with cousins; working as a tailor; marriage in 1948; and emigration to the United States in 1951. He details conditions in the ghetto and camps and discusses the importance of aggressiveness in obtaining food and optimism to his survival.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1991
- Interview Date
- March 24, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Brussels (Belgium)
Italy - Cite As
- Charles M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1656). 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., 55 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Mass killings.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Zionist organizations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) Brussels (Belgium) Italy. Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. M., Charles,--1926- Ostrowiec (Concentration camp) Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Birkenau (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/1088179
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1088179
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