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Moshe B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4409) interviewed by Susan Millen and Barbara Hadley Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4409

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Rymanów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; his brothers studying in Pinsk (they were exiled to Siberia by the Soviets); German invasion; selection for forced labor; his family's deportation; transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto; deportation to Pustków in 1943; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944, then Buna/Monowitz two weeks later; train transfer to Mauthausen; many deaths en route; Czechs throwing them food; transfer to Hannover; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; taking scraps from the garbage; liberation by British troops; returning home; reunion with one brother, a Soviet soldier, in Katowice; traveling to Prague; living in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; joining a Zionist group; emigration to the United States, with assistance from the Joint; draft into the U.S. military; being stationed in Ulm; discharge; traveling to Israel; marriage; and the births of three sons. He sings several songs and shows photographs.
Author/Creator: B., Moshe, 1926-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2008
Interview Date: January 29, 2008.
Locale: Poland
Rzeszów
Rymanów (Poland)
Ulm (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Katowice (Poland)
Cite As: Moshe B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4409). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 39 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
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. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Rzeszów. Jewish ghettos. Death marches. Concentration camps--Songs and music. Refugee camps. Poland. Rymanów (Poland) Ulm (Germany) Prague (Czech Republic) Katowice (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) B., Moshe,--1926- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Pustków (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

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/8118549
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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