- Summary
- Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. He describes attending Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing to L'viv, in the Soviet zone, with his father and brother; Soviet occupation; returning to Warsaw in October 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to L'viv via Małkinia in spring 1940; arrest of his father and brother in April (he never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; obtaining false papers with assistance from non-Jewish friends in Otwock; ghettoization; the Judenrat and Jewish police assisting in rounding-up Jews; securing food for his mother and sisters; hiding in Otwock with assistance from a Pole, then in a village, posing as a non-Jew; returning to Otwock, then Warsaw in 1943; contacting his mother; witnessing the ghetto uprising; fleeing to Lublin; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; arrest as a German spy; forced labor in Sverdlovsk (presently Ekaterinburg); release; living in a village near Alma-Ata; obtaining travel documents from the Polish embassy in Moscow; returning to Warsaw in 1948; from Łódź, contacting relatives in the United States with assistance from the Joint; illegal entry into Sweden; working in Stockholm; emigrating to the United States in April 1949; and reunion with his sister.
- Author/Creator
- M., David, 1926-
- Published
- Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
- Interview Date
- November 1, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
L'viv (Ukraine)
Małkinia (Poland)
Otwock (Poland)
Stockholm (Sweden)
Lublin (Poland)
Ekaterinburg (Russia)
Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
Moscow (Russia)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- David M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1951). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Osadchey, Lidya, interviewer.
Cohn, Helen, interviewer.
