Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gabriel M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1934. Mr. M. recalls his prewar neighborhood; close family ties with Jews and Christians; German occupation; his family's strong Polish sympathies; daily life in the ghetto; his sense of loss at the death of a friend; the "nightmarish, unreal" feeling of the occupation; the role of war news as a tenuous link with reality; relocating when the Germans reduced the ghetto's size in mid-1942; his father's role in the ghetto uprising; and escaping with his mother in early 1943, aided by a Polish policeman active in rescuing Jews. He tells of being hidden in various places; hiding with ten Jews active in the resistance; living on forged papers; apprehension and internment with his mother at Preussenau during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; escaping on false papers to Kraków and Zakopane; liberation by Soviet forces; emigration with Youth Aliyah to Palestine in 1946; and the "different reality" of Jews in Palestine and their initial reluctance to confront the Holocaust.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
- Interview Date
- September 28, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Zakopane (Poland) - Cite As
- Gabriel M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1113). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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 (2 hr., 8 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Child survivors.
False papers.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Resistance. - 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 ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Zakopane (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Escapes. M., Gabriel,--1934- Jewish Agency for Israel.--Youth Aliyah Department.--Mador le-hadrakhah.
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/972030
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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