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David M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2982) interviewed by Jean-Michel Chaumont and Claire Paulus,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2982

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Oberhausen, Germany in 1922. He recounts moving to Charleroi, Belgium, then Brussels; attending public school; his father's support of trade unions; his participation in a leftist group; disbelief in German refugees' stories of concentration camps; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Abbeville, France; returning to Brussels; involvement in a Resistance group; arrest; incarceration in Saint-Gilles; interrogations; transfer to Malines; meeting his father there; not escaping due to his promise to escape with his father; deportation to Auschwitz; selection as a tailor; learning his father had perished in Birkenau; a doctor refusing his request to stay in the infirmary (this saved his life); transfer to Warsaw to demolish the ghetto; working as a tailor; evacuation to Dachau eleven months later in August 1944; and transfer to Waldlager V. Mr. M. recalls returning to Brussels; his family's disinterest in his experience; learning he had lost vision in one eye; marriage in 1947; and frequently talking about the war years with fellow deportees. He discusses concentration camp life: intergroup relations, organization, absolute arbitrariness, and contrast with normality. Mr. M. notes his dismay that his expectation that "things" would be better, did not occur.
    Author/Creator
    M., David, 1922-
    Published
    Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992
    Interview Date
    December 9, 1992.
    Locale
    Belgium
    Germany
    Oberhausen (Düsseldorf, Germany)
    Charleroi (Belgium)
    Brussels (Belgium)
    Abbeville (France)
    Cite As
    David M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2982). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Chaumont, Jean-Michel, interviewer.
    Paulus, Claire, 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 (2 hr.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Resistance.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289936
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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