LEADER 04562cpd a2200565 a 4500001 4294063 005 20180530114455.0 008 980731s1982 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234576 035 HVT-602 035 |9FLW8296YL 035 4294063 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702157079 090 |bHVT-602 100 1 A., Michael, |d1910- 245 10 Michael A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-602) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Eva Cooperman, |fOctober 30, 1982. 260 Greenwich, Conn. : |bSecond Generation of Westchester, |c1982. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 48 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Michael A., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1910. He recounts his family's long lineage of Italian rabbis; attending public school; graduating from university in 1929; working as a window dresser in the Hague; marriage in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; working with the underground; membership on the Judenrat; being approached by Friedrich Weinreb to go to Portugal (it was a sham); deportation to Westerbork in 1943; his wife contracting polio; working as a carpenter; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; separation from his wife; slave labor as a carpenter; confessing to stealing food to save an older prisoner; smuggling his wife into his barrack; arrival of prisoners from Auschwitz; digging mass graves; a death march to a train; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; serving as an interpreter; reluctance to take revenge on Germans; returning to the Hague with his wife; his daughter's birth; emigration to the United States in 1951; and difficulties receiving reparations. Mr. A. discusses not leaving the Netherlands prior to the war due to excellent relations with non-Jews; the importance to his survival of being with his wife and his “moral strength”; and seeking information about his family (most did not survive). 524 Michael A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-602). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e4 copies: |b1/2 in. VHS master; |bBetacam SP restoration master; |bBetacam SP restoration submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 A., Michael, |d1910- 600 10 Weinreb, Friedrich, |d1910-1988. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80051209 610 20 Westerbork (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97034608 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702 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 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zNetherlands. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006000914 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Husband and wife. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 651 0 Netherlands. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78085423 651 0 Amsterdam (Netherlands) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095634 651 0 Hague (Netherlands) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79032987 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. 700 1 Cooperman, Eva, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4673444 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.0602) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/qz22b8vn9k 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/