Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Shereshevo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recounts attending cheder and a Tarbut school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism; his father's arrest for performing a kosher slaughter when it became illegal; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's execution; forced relocation through several towns to the Pruzh︠a︡ny ghetto; the Judenrat doing its best under the circumstances to allocate resources and forced labor fairly; forced labor outside the ghetto; participating in the ghetto underground; his family's round-up and deportation (he never saw them again); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; beatings; slave labor in a tailor shop; a fellow prisoner sharing a lemon when he was ill; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; English POWs sharing Red Cross packages; a death march to Gleiwitz, Langenbielau, and other places; shootings of many prisoners; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Katowice and Warsaw with assistance from the Red Cross; marriage in 1946; the births of his children; his son's emigration to the United States in 1979; joining him with his wife and daughter in 1987; and his wife's recent death. He discusses relations between national groups in the camps and shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- December 19, 1991.
- Locale
- Belarus
Pruz︠h︡any
Poland
Shereshevo (Belarus)
Katowice (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland) - Cite As
- Moshe K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1923). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Yiddish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 18 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Soviet occupation.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Belarus--Pruz︠h︡any. Jewish councils. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus. Prisoners of war--Poland. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Shereshevo (Belarus) Katowice (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) K., Moshe,--1924- World Hashomer Hatzair. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Langenbielau (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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/4285170
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4285170
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