- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Avraham M., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1922. He recounts his father's emigration to Palestine in 1925 to prepare for the family to join him; his return when his own father was ill; participation in Gordonyah; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; working for a printer; printing circulars for the resistance; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; resistance meetings with Mordechai Anielewicz and Eleizer Geller; discussions of the purpose of resistance and dying; ghettoization in 1943; helping a Jew from Warsaw escape; obtaining Paraguayan citizenship papers through Zionist contacts in Switzerland; transfer to Tittmoning in May 1943 as an exchange foreign citizen; benign conditions; receiving Red Cross packages; one visit from his father; transfer to Laufen-Ilag; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; transfer to a hospital in London when he was injured, then to Hamburg; moving to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps; organizing a Zionist youth group; and emigration to Israel. Mr. M. discusses the Judenrat and ghetto police, including his father's role; learning his mother, father, and sister were killed in Auschwitz; and participating in founding a kibbutz for those from the British zone.
- Author/Creator
- M., Avraham, 1922-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- July 25, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Będzin
Hamburg (Germany)
Będzin (Poland)
London (England)
- Cite As
- Avraham M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3309). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Beyrak, Nathan, interviewer.
Tarsi, Anita, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
