LEADER 05419cpd a2200661 a 4500001 6572517 005 20180529115341.0 008 040423s2002 ctu dut d 035 HVT-4291 035 6572517 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005109488 090 |bHVT-4291 100 1 F., Maurice, |d1923- 245 10 Maurice F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4291) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Rik Hemmerijckx, |fJanuary 31, 2002. 260 Antwerp, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c2002. 300 1 videorecording (4 hr., 5 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who was born in Sambor, Poland in 1923. He recounts moving to Belgium with his family when he was a child; his father's death; leaving school to help support his family; becoming a furrier; German invasion; fleeing to France with his mother and brother; their arrest; incarceration with his brother in Saint-Cyprien; their release due to his brother's musical talent; finding their mother in Toulouse; moving to a town near Agde, to Marseille, then Valras-Plage; arrest in summer 1942; incarceration in Rivesaltes, then Drancy; deportation with his brother to a camp in Germany, then Łazy (they never saw their mother again); slave labor building railroad tracks; beatings and starvation; he and his brother receiving extra food for singing Jewish songs; his brother saving him from deportation to Auschwitz; fasting on Yom Kippur; their close bond with another Belgian prisoner; transfer to Markstädt six weeks later; a kapo protecting them; receiving extra food from his civilian supervisor; transfer to Fünfteichen; separation from his brother and friend when they were transferred; receiving extra food from a French prisoner-of-war; making himself ill to avoid evacuation due to the resulting hospitalization; liberation by Soviet troops in winter 1945; traveling to Kraków, Katowice, Marseille, then Antwerp; an emotional reunion with his brother and friend; working in Brussels; marriage; his child's birth; moving to New York, then Philadelphia in 1951; and returning to Antwerp in 1957. Mr. F. notes the importance of luck to his survival and his twenty-year career helping children through a social center. 546 This testimony is in Dutch. 540 This testimony can only be used in its entirety. It cannot be edited. 524 Maurice F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4291). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 F., Maurice, |d1923- 610 20 Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002032772 610 20 Rivesaltes (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028035 610 20 Drancy (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96094627 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 Brothers. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camps |vSongs and music. 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Prisoners of war |zFrance. 650 0 Prisoners of war |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108343 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Sambor (Poland) 651 0 Toulouse (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091182 651 0 Marseille (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108882 651 0 Valras-Plage (France) 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145 651 0 Katowice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79148228 651 0 Antwerp (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018141 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 651 0 New York (N.Y.) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751 651 0 Philadelphia (Pa.) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095520 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Łazy (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp) 610 20 Markstädt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013097680 700 1 Hemmerijckx, Rik, |d1962- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007038711 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b7196590 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4291) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/862b853m4m 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/