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Maurice F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-385) interviewed by Donna Yanowitz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-385

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who served in the United States military, 2nd Infantry Regiment, in a medical detachment from 1943 to 1945. He recalls encountering a group of approximately seventy-five emaciated women in Eggenfelden, who related to him that they had been on a death march; their sense of hopelessness; their desire for Jewish contact (he spoke to them in Yiddish); his unit and local people disinterring bodies of others from their group and reburying them in coffins; his special bond with the women because he was Jewish; and some postwar correspondence. He notes sending photographs to Yad Vashem (he shows some) and painful memories, particularly of the smell of death.
Author/Creator: F., Maurice.
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
Interview Date: July 20, 1984.
Locale: United States
Eggenfelden (Germany)
Cite As: Maurice F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-385). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Yanowitz, Donna, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (22 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Liberator.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. United States--Armed Forces--Europe. Death marches. Eggenfelden (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Maurice. United States.--Army.--Infantry Regiment, 2nd.

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/4293740
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4293740

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