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Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3558)

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    Overview

    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a round-up; working on a farm as a non-Jew; changing locations often; a Polish friend providing him with a birth certificate, which saved his life several times; returning to Warsaw; the ghetto uprising; selling stolen goods with other children; being arrested and beaten by the police; joining the Polish uprising in 1944; his satisfaction when they killed German soldiers; capture; deportation to Oppeln as a Polish prisoner-of-war; forced labor in a factory; receiving Red Cross packages; desertion by German guards during a march; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; returning to Praga; living with a friend's family; joining a kibbutz in Kraków; assistance from the Joint; living in the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp in Vienna; traveling to Italy; illegal emigration to Palestine in 1946; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; entering Israel in February 1948; serving in the Israeli-Arab war; and recently receiving a medal from the Polish government for his role in the 1944 uprising. Mr. M. discusses learning of the extermination camps only after the war and the murder of his entire family.
    Author/Creator
    M., Ya'akov, 1929-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
    Interview Date
    July 5, 1993.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Germany
    Praga (Warsaw, Poland)
    Piaseczno (Piaseczno, Poland)
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Kraków (Poland)
    Italy
    Cyprus
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Ya'akov M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3558). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    3 videorecordings (9 hr., 6 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Revenge. Prisoners of war--Poland. Prisoners of war--Germany. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Poland. Praga (Warsaw, Poland) Piaseczno (Piaseczno, Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising of 1944. Kraków (Poland) Italy. Cyprus. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) M., Ya'akov,--1929- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298251
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:51:00
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