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Oral history interview with Moshe Messer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.345 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0345

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    Oral history interview with Moshe Messer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Moshe Messer, born in 1927 in Włodzimierz Wołynski, Poland (Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, Ukraine), describes living a traditional life; being one of four children; the relationship between Jews and Ukrainians; his education; celebrating Jewish holidays; the 1939 Russian occupation and refugees being sent to Siberia; the German invasion in 1941; the consolidation of the Jews into a ghetto; the imposed selections for work groups on the Jews of the town; the conditions of living and working in the ghetto until his family decided to go into hiding; how he and his family were discovered in their hiding place and were separated; joining some of his friends and escaping to the forest with the help of a Polish friend; making contact with partisans, who were antisemitic; he and his friends meeting an advance patrol of the Russian Army and were told to march towards Rovno, Poland (Rivne, Ukraine); being unable to find any relatives after the war and deciding to move to Lublin, Poland; immigrating to Palestine in 1948 with the help of Jewish relief groups; his enlistment to fight the Egyptian Army in the Israeli War for Independence; his later release from the army; marrying in 1953; and having three children.
    Interviewee
    Moshe Messer
    Date
    interview:  1998 May 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Messer, Moshe, 1927-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Moshe Messer in Israel on May 7, 1998. The U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:19
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