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Arnold M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3163) interviewed by Michel Sobelman,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3163

Videotape testimony of Arnold M., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1914. In a detailed, vivid, and insightful testimony, he describes his family background; completing medical studies in Rouen and Toulouse; returning to Poland; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; working in a hospital; returning to Łódź; working in the Jewish infirmary; ghettoization; limited contact with Germans; corresponding with his father in the Warsaw ghetto; deportations; arrest by Jewish police for helping Bund demonstrators; working in a hospital; visiting the ghetto's Romani section; his agony over being forced to make health assessments for "selections"; and his marriage. Mr. M. discusses the hierarchy of the Jewish Council; dilemmas they faced; and Mordecai Rumkowski's role. He recounts liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his wife; selections; his survival strategies; encountering a medical school colleague who was in the Canada Kommando (he visited there); seeing his wife from afar; evacuation to Hirschberg; a soccer match between SS guards and Jewish prisoners; voluntary transfer to Bad Warmbrunn-Cieplice as a doctor; contracting typhus; transfer to Erlenbusch, then Doernhau; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with his wife in Frýdlant; recuperating from tuberculosis; moving to Wrocław, then Warsaw; and becoming a writer.

Author/Creator
M., Arnold, 1914-2002.
Published
Warsaw, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
Interview Date
July 10, 1994.
Locale
Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Rouen (France)
Toulouse (France)
Warsaw (Poland)
Frýdlant (Czech Republic)
Wrocław (Poland)
Language
Polish
Copies
2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Arnold M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3163). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290884
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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