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Israel M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1273) interviewed by Sara Moss Herz and Frances Proctor Cohen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1273

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Slonim, Poland (today Belarus), in 1937. Mr. M. tells of being sent by his family (whom he never saw again) to visit his uncle in 1941; fleeing east from the German attack with his uncle and family; traveling through Minsk to Kiev, where they entrained for Soviet Central Asia; German air attacks en route; and arrival in Samarqand, Uzbekistan in late 1941. He recounts the lack of food and poor sanitation; the deaths of his relatives from disease; placement in a Russian orphanage in 1942; returning to liberated Poland in 1945; anti-Semitic taunts; being taken by members of a Zionist organization to a kibbutz at Łódź; preparation for illegal emigration to Palestine; and being left in Rome in 1946 after he became ill. He recalls being abducted by a group of orthodox Jews, one of whom helped him contact his relatives in the United States; going with the group to Canada in 1949; returning to Rome in order to emigrate to the United States in 1950; the indifference of his American relatives upon his arrival; and his subsequent education as a Hebrew school teacher.
    Author/Creator
    M., Israel, 1937-
    Published
    New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
    Interview Date
    August 16, 1989.
    Locale
    Soviet Union
    Poland
    Belarus
    Slonim (Belarus)
    Rome (Italy)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
    Cite As
    Israel M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1273). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
    Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.

    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., 33 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Child survivors.
    Postwar experiences.
    Zionist activities.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/982257
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
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