- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Mark W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917, one of three children. He recounts his family's emigration to Palestine in 1924; their return to Łódź in 1927; his father's successful textile business; studying textile engineering in Verviers beginning in 1935; assisting German anti-Nazis; becoming engaged during a visit home; Germany invasion of Poland; moving to Brussels; his father fleeing to Trieste with assistance from a German associate who was a Nazi; German invasion in 1940; fleeing to Dunkerque, then Paris; being sent to a Polish army camp in central France; French capitulation; traveling to La Rochelle with the Polish officers; sailing with them to England; transfer to a military camp in Scotland; moving to a kibbutz in Glasgow, then working for his father's friend in London; German bombings; evacuation to Greenford; living in Leeds, then Manchester; his father's emigration to the United States; receiving letters from his mother until 1942; moving to Bradford after the war; reunion with his sister in Paris (she had been in the Soviet Union); marriage; moving to Paris; his son's birth; emigration to Israel; his second son's birth; and moving to the United States in 1959. Mr. W. notes learning his fiancée, mother, and brother were killed in Belzec. He shows photographs and reads a letter from his mother.
- Author/Creator
- W., Mark, 1917-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 16, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź (Poland)
Palestine
Verviers (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Dunkerque (France)
Paris (France)
La Rochelle (France)
Glasgow (Scotland)
London (England)
Greenford (London, England)
Leeds (England)
Manchester (England)
Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Israel
- Cite As
- Mark W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-997). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
