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Joseph M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-70) interviewed by Doris Simon,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-70

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Szczakowa, Poland, in 1922. He speaks of family life before the war; the mistreatment and killings of Jews at the beginning of the war; his 1940 deportation to Sakrau, where he was a slave laborer; and his transfer to Gross Masselwitz in 1942. He describes a typical day in Neukirch, a labor camp he was sent to in 1943, and conditions in the camps to which he was subsequently sent: Markstädt, Schmiedeberg, Klettendorf, and Waldenburg, where he was liberated by the Russians in 1945. He discusses his postwar return home; his reunion with his sister; leaving Poland for the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, where he met his wife; revenge taken by former prisoners against former Kapos; discovery of a surviving brother who had been imprisoned in Russia and emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: M., Joseph, 1922-
Published: Lawrence, N.Y. : Second Generation of Long Island, 1982
Interview Date: May 31, 1982.
Locale: Poland
Szczakowa (Poland)
Cite As: Joseph M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-70). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Simon, Doris, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Revenge. Poland. Szczakowa (Poland) Refugee camps. Oral histories (document genres) M., Joseph,--1922- Markstädt (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616934
Record last modified:: 2018-03-06 14:13:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616934

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