- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Maks B., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in approximately 1920. He recalls the successful family store; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; his father hiding when Nazis came for him; a family meeting at which many, at his father's urging, decided to leave for Palestine (most who remained were killed); traveling to Palestine via Italy; his mother's death five years later; his father's remarriage; intending to visit relatives in Europe in 1939; leaving the ship to return to Tel Aviv upon learning policies against Jews in Palestine; joining the Irgun; working in the diamond industry; starting his own business; traveling to the United States on behalf of Irgun in March 1948; speaking at a large meeting of the American League to Free Palestine; returning after Israeli statehood had been declared; emigration to the United States; marriage; and traveling with his wife and children to Frankfurt in 1958. Mr. B. discusses experiences with Menachem Begin, Ben Hecht, Leonard Bernstein, and Marc Chagall.
- Author/Creator
- B., Maks, 1920?-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990 and 1992
- Interview Date
- August 20, 1990 and March 12, 1992.
- Locale
- Palestine
Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Cite As
- Maks B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1560). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
