LEADER 05753cpd a2200733 a 4500001 4291039 005 20180530113309.0 008 980731s1995 ctu fre d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233971 035 HVT-3220 035 |9FLW5239YL 035 4291039 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155482 090 |bHVT-3220 100 1 L., Michel, |d1922- 245 10 Michel L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3220) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Josette Zarka and Henri Borlant, |fMarch 9, 1995. 260 Paris, France : |bTémoignages pour mémoire, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 52 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Michel L., who was born in Skierniewice, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's emigration to Metz in 1923; their return to Poland in 1936; moving back to France; attending a Jewish school; living among his extended family; his father's death; leaving school for a tailor's apprenticeship; German invasion; forced relocation with his extended family to Angoulême; denunciation and arrest in 1942; incarceration near Poitiers; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August; slave labor digging canals and moving corpses; volunteering to work as a tailor; improved conditions; reunion with Serge, a childhood friend; their transfer to Warsaw; assisting hidden ghetto survivors; public executions; assignment to the laundry; he and his friends exchanging goods for food with Polish civilians; a death march in August 1944 to Łowicz and Kutno, then train transport to Dachau; transfer to a sub-camp; train evacuation in April 1945; escaping with Serge during Allied bombings; receiving food from army deserters; liberation by United States troops; repatriation via Hotel Lutetia in Paris; traveling to Angoulême, then Metz; learning his mother and siblings had been deported and killed; living in Paris; marriage to a survivor; his son's birth; learning twenty years later his youngest brother had survived in hiding; and their reunion. Mr. L. discusses not sharing his experiences with his son; nightmares and his loss of faith; and recently visiting Auschwitz with Serge. He shows photographs. 546 This testimony is in French. 524 Michel L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3220). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 L., Michel, |d1922- 610 20 Drancy (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96094627 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Konzentrationslager Warschau. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003047736 610 20 Dachau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065344 610 20 Hotel Lutetia (Paris, France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95009129 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Friendship. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Skierniewice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81070854 651 0 Metz (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091180 651 0 Nancy (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091171 651 0 Angoulême (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071978 651 0 Poitiers (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091184 651 0 Łowicz (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83052244 651 0 Kutno (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85120633 651 0 Paris (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 700 1 Zarka, Josette, |einterviewer. 700 1 Borlant, Henri, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003064932 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4670263 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3220) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/wp9t14v00j 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/