LEADER 06015cpd a2200733 a 4500001 4366850 005 20180604132527.0 008 980731s1995 ctu heb d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702236463 035 HVT-3774 035 |9FME1989YL 035 4366850 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702161338 090 |bHVT-3774 100 1 L., Mordechai, |d1926- 245 10 Mordechai L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3774) |h[videorecording], |fApril 16, June 15, and October 26, 1995. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1995. 300 3 videorecordings (3 hr.; 2 hr., 59 min.; 1 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Mordechai L., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; their German cultural orientation (Czech was their second language); cordial relations with non-Jews; questioning orthodoxy as he became more educated; German invasion in March 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; one brother's emigration to Palestine; his father's arrest and release five weeks later; expulsion from school; his bar mitzvah; attending a Zionist Czech school; participating in Zionist youth movements despite his father's disapproval; meeting Fredy Hirsch; a non-Jew bringing them food; apprenticing as an electrician; deportation with his parents and brother in 1943 to Theresienstadt; assignment to a construction group; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; studying Hebrew; separation from his parents when he was deported to Auschwitz in September 1944 (he never saw them again); remaining with his brother and two friends; a cousin who had been there previously advising them to volunteer for any transport out; their transfer to Kaufering; slave labor in a lumber mill; the deaths of his brother and one friend; a death march to Allach; liberation by United States troops; returning with his friend to Prague via Plzeň with his friend; briefly working with a non-Jew organizing Jewish orphans; moving to a Makabi ha-tsaʻir camp in Bratislava; helping organize youth emigration to Palestine; marriage in 1946; and emigration to Israel in 1949. Mr. L. discusses prisoners organizing help for others and cultural events in Theresienstadt; Yom Kippur services there in 1944; and sometimes believing that he would survive and sometimes that he would not. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Mordechai L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3774). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 L., Mordechai, |d1926- 600 10 Hirsch, Fredy, |d1916-1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00090728 610 20 Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Kaufering (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028026 610 20 Allach (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003101986 610 20 Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006708 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Bar mitzvah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761 650 0 Zionists. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149889 650 0 Families. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 Brothers. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 651 0 Plzeň (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50055265 651 0 Bratislava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093362 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4748917 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3774) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/dr2p55dm3k 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/