Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; learning to be a tailor; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to a labor camp in 1941; transfer to another camp; return home; escaping from the town's last deportation in 1943; returning to the labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor; hospitalization for an injury; assistance from a prisoner doctor in avoiding selection; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Gleiwitz, Oranienburg, Flossenbürg, then Plattling in winter 1945; Allied bombings; escaping with three friends from a death march; capture; incarceration in Dachau; liberation by United States troops; and living with his friends in Vienna. Mr. M. speaks about learning his parents had been killed; the importance to his survival of being a tailor (he received extra food and privileges in the camps); and difficulty believing he lived through his experiences. He shows a document.
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1994
- Interview Date
- October 25, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Vienna (Austria) - Cite As
- Jack M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3025). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Prewar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Escapes. Poland. Vienna (Austria) Oral histories (document genres) M., Jack,--1924- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Plattling (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Monowitz (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/4290096
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290096
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