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Jacques M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2647) interviewed by Annette Wieviorka and Henri Borlant,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2647

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jacques M., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925. He recalls living with his mother and sisters in a Jewish neighborhood; attending public school; German invasion; ghettoization; providing his family with food by working as a messenger; being caught in a round-up; forced labor in a munitions factory in Częstochowa; deportation to Buchenwald; slave labor at a munitions factory in Sonneberg; a circuitous death march; disappearance of the guards; liberation by United States troops; returning to Łódź; moving to Bamberg; and emigrating to France. Mr. M. reflects on the importance of luck to his survival; the pain of having to see the suffering of women and children in the ghetto; difficulties he had adjusting to postwar life; and the importance of his family. He relates experiences of other family members and shows photographs.
Author/Creator: M., Jacques, 1925-
Published: Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
Interview Date: May 21, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Bamberg (Germany)
Cite As: Jacques M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2647). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
Borlant, Henri, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in French.

Physical Details

Language: French
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Death marches. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Bamberg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) M., Jacques,--1925- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288482
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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