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Charles M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1656) interviewed by Ada Bloom and Janet Brown,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1656

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    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.
    Author/Creator
    M., Charles, 1926-
    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.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Bloom, Ada, interviewer.
    Brown, Janet, interviewer.

    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.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1088179
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:58:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt1088179

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