- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Michael N. who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1919. He recalls attending public school; children throwing stones at him because he was Jewish; learning cabinet making; working in his parents' store; German invasion; persuading his parents after three months that he should go to the Soviet Union; smuggling himself across the border; living in Lʹviv; registering to work in a Soviet coal mine; leaving after two weeks; incarceration in a forced labor camp in Medvezhʹyegorsk; release a year later; working in a munitions factory; military draft in 1944; serving in Lublin; learning of the mass killing of Jews; visiting Majdanek; being wounded; hospitalization; staying with a cousin in Sosnowiec; returning to the military; traveling to Zawiercie; learning one brother was in Germany; reunion with both brothers in Memmingen; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States. Mr. N. notes how lucky he was to have both brothers survive. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- N., Michael, 1919-
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1992
- Interview Date
- November 12, 1992.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Poland
Zawiercie (Poland)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Medvezhʹegorsk (Russia)
Lublin (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Memmingen (Germany)
- Cite As
- Michael N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3026). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Peckerman, Jeanette, interviewer.
Hoffman, Sandy, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: William N. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-1162), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
