Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Mark M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in approximately 1922, one of ten children. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending school; working in his brother's commercial art studio; attending Betar meetings; participating in Maccabi; family vacations in Otwock; German invasion; his mother and brother being killed by German bombs; using identification papers of a non-Jewish friend who was killed; fleeing east; arrest on the Soviet border; brief imprisonment in Novosibirisk; deportation to a labor camp in Siberia; a brief reunion with his sister; transfer to Sumy; joining the Polish section of the Soviet army; attending officer training school; fighting in many places as the forces moved west; entering Majdanek after liberation; observing piles of burnt corpses; executions of German camp officials; transfer to Warsaw; visiting his sister in Łódź; deserting and traveling illegally to Berlin; recruitment by the Haganah in Munich; traveling to Marseille; illegal emigration by boat to Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for one year; release; marriage in 1948; serving in the Israeli army; and emigration to the United States in 1954 with assistance from his brother. He shows photographs and examples of his commercial artwork.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- September 13, 1984.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Otwock (Poland)
Novosibirsk (Russia)
Sumy (Ukraine)
Łódź (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
Marseille (France)
Cyprus
Palestine - Cite As
- Mark M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-496). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 6 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
False papers.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Refugee camps. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Otwock (Poland) Novosibirsk (Russia) Sumy (Ukraine) Łódź (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Munich (Germany) Marseille (France) Cyprus. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) M., Mark,--1922?- Betar. Maccabi World Union. Majdanek (Concentration camp) Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) Haganah (Organization)
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/4293880
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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