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950324s1991 ctu eng d
a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Charles M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1656)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Ada Bloom and Janet Brown,
f| March 24, 1991.
a| Baltimore, Md. :
b| Baltimore Jewish Council,
c| 1991.
a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 55 min.) :
b| col.
a| 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.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Charles M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1656). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Ostrowiec (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004010403
a| Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008053891
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Concentration camps
x| Psychological aspects.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Piotrków Trybunalski.
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Children.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015362
a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
a| Ebensee (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97023096
a| Melk (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028754
a| Brussels (Belgium)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830
a| Italy.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021783
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Antisemitism
y| Prewar.
a| Death marches.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384
a| Zionist organizations.
a| Birkenau (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
a| Bloom, Ada,
e| interviewer.
a| Brown, Janet,
e| interviewer.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90624271
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1656)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/fj29882s2g
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/