Morris B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1755) interviewed by Jaschael Pery,
Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Drahovo, Ukraine (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy when he was born, later Czechoslovakia), one of eight children. He recalls his father's service in World War I; his death; leaving school to support his family; serving in the Czech army; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion in Košice, Debrecen, and Serbia; returning home in 1944; transfer with his family to Sokirnitsa; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family (he never saw his mother again); transfer to Buchenwald, Dora, and Nordhausen; reunion with two brothers; a severe beating; transfer to Bergen-Belsen with one brother in February 1945; their physical deterioration; receiving extra soup for placing corpses on pyres; liberation by British troops in April; hospitalization in Gotland, Sweden; marriage; working in Stockholm; the birth of a daughter; and emigration to the United States in 1947.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 27, 1991.
- Locale
- Hungary
Austria
Drahovo (Ukraine)
Košice (Slovakia)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Sokyrnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Serbia
Dora (Germany : Concentration camp)
Nordhausen (Germany : Concentration camp)
Gotland (Sweden)
Stockholm (Sweden) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Morris B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1755). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4317797
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