Overview
- Interview Summary
- Morris Pelta (né Moishe Horowicz), born July 6, 1926, discusses growing up in Łódź, Poland; the beginning of the war; the creation of the Łódź Ghetto; life in the ghetto; being deported along with his family to Auschwitz; being given the number B-6602; doing forced labor at a satellite camp; being sent on a death march; being liberated by the Red Army; staying in a displaced persons camp in Germany; meeting his wife at the DP camp; immigrating to Israel; serving in the Israel Defense Forces; and immigrating to the United States. [The interview ends abruptly.]
- Interviewee
- Morris Pelta
- Interviewer
- Ms. Rikki Pelta
- Date
-
interview:
2004 April
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rikki Pelta
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
-
1 sound microcassette.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates. Death march survivors. Death marches. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors--Israel. Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Jewish families. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jews--Persecutions. Refugee camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Łódź. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Israel--Emigration and immigration. Łódź (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Pelta, Morris, 1926-2004.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Israel. Army
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Rikki Pelta donated her interview with her grandfather Morris (Moishe) Pelta to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2019.
- Special Collection
-
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-31 10:41:14
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn671438
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