Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1922; moving to Antwerp; his father's bankruptcy in 1930; being supported by his fourteen year-old brother; working as a diamond cutter; German invasion; working with a German refugee (his future wife) smuggling Jews to Belgium; marriage; arrest; incarceration in Antwerp, then Malines; an encounter with Mala Zimetbaum; choosing to remain with his wife when he could have left; his deportation to Laurahütte; a Jewish funeral when the first prisoner died, but none thereafter; transfer to Sakrau; not escaping in order to remain with his brother-in-law; transfer to Szopienice; slave labor laying rails; receiving food from British POWs in the Palestine Brigade; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Warsaw; clearing rubble from the ghetto; Greek prisoners baking matzos on Passover; finding diamonds which provided medical attention when he was ill, extra food, a job as the kapos's secretary, and help for many other prisoners; transfer to Dachau, then Kaufering; a death march; abandonment by the guards; repatriation; and reunion with his wife. Mr. M. notes many details about fellow-prisoners and camp life. He discusses his continuing nightmares.
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 2, 1992.
- Locale
- Germany
Mannheim (Germany)
Brussels (Belgium)
Antwerp (Belgium) - Cite As
- Israel M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2981). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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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 (3 hr., 11 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Nightmares. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Death marches. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons,Belgian. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Germany. Mannheim (Germany) Brussels (Belgium) Antwerp (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) M., Israel,--1921- Zimetbaum, Mala,--1918-1944. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Konzentrationslager Warschau. Dachau (Concentration camp) Malines (Concentration camp) Laurahütte (Concentration camp) Kaufering (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/4289934
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4289934
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