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Oral history interview with Ya'akov Movshovich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.270 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0270

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    Oral history interview with Ya'akov Movshovich

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    Interview Summary
    Ya'akov Movshovich, born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, describes being one of two children; his family's affluence; attending a Polish school, then a Katzenelson school and summer camp; antisemitic harassment of orthodox Jews; volunteering in a civil defense corps during the German invasion; doing forced labor; a German assisting his father receive payment for his store merchandise; ghettoization; receiving food from the same German; attending a school and a haschshara in the ghetto from 1940 to 1941 and how it moved to Marichin (possibly Marysin); slave labor in a shoe factory, then a printing factory; his father working in a wood shop and his mother working in a kitchen; receiving extra food from the manager when a songwriter among them wrote songs (he sings one of them); food shortages and hunger in 1942; hiding with his family during round-ups; their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944; arriving in Auschwitz and volunteering to work as a locksmith; being separated from his family; trading his shoes to a Kapo for food; being taken by train to camp Friedland (in Mieroszów, Poland); training, work, and life in the camp; slave labor in an airplane propeller factory; Italian POWs believing he was Italian and giving him food, cigarettes, and a coat; working in the kitchen; throwing food to fellow prisoners; a religious prisoner refusing to eat bread during Passover; making and obtaining weapons to resist if there was a liquidation; the lack of medical treatment in the camp; how escapes were accomplished; receiving assistance from a German guard; abandonment by the Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Czechoslovakia, then back to Friedland for six months; traveling to Łódź with a group and one of them being killed en route by Poles; assisting with Jewish emigration to Palestine; immigrating to Israel in 1958; the deaths of almost his entire family in the Holocaust; and the birth of his son. He also shows photographs.
    Interviewee
    Ya'akov Movshovich
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Genre/Form
    Music.
    Extent
    5 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Movshovich in Israel on January 11, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:53
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