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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Mark M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-496)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Sylvia Abrams,
f| September 13, 1984.
a| Cleveland, Ohio :
b| National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project,
c| 1984.
a| 1 videorecording (2 hr., 6 min.) :
b| col.
a| 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.
a| Mark M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-496). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 4 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| Betacam SP restoration master;
b| Betacam SP restoration submaster;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Betar.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81012060
a| Maccabi World Union.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85114064
a| Majdanek (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065728
a| Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008053891
a| Haganah (Organization)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80020612
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Refugee camps.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802
a| Jews
x| Migrations.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070426
a| Jewish refugees.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112308
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Conscript labor
z| Soviet Union.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119652
a| Brothers and sisters.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017225
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119635
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Participation, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Participation, Polish.
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Warsaw (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894
a| Otwock (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92011303
a| Novosibirsk (Russia)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82029398
a| Sumy (Ukraine)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81005212
a| Łódź (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570
a| Berlin (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972
a| Munich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670
a| Marseille (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108882
a| Cyprus.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055857
a| Palestine
x| Emigration and immigration.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Antisemitism
y| Prewar.
a| Abrams, Sylvia F.
q| (Sylvia Fleck)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016009858
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.0496)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5m6251fn40
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/