USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Mordekhay Franḳel

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 31063

Overview

Interviewee: Mordekhay Franḳel
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: M
Interview Length: 2:58:03
Interview Date: 5/4/1997
Interview Location: Northern / Israel
Birth Year: 1923
Birth City: Kisvárda (Hungary)
Birth Country: Hungary
Camps: Sárvár (Hungary : Internment Camp)
Vechelde (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Wöbbelin (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz I (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Neuengamme (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Ravensbrück (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Watenstedt (Germany : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Braunschweig (Germany : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Hiding or False Identity Location: Budapest (Hungary)
Type of Hiding Place: bunkers
Liberated By: armed forces/ United States
Location of Liberation: Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-Schwerin/ Germany)
Other Experiences: prisons
displaced persons camps
concealment of Jewish identity
forced labor battalions/ Hungarian
Prewar Religious Identity: traditional Judaism
Postwar Religious Identity: Judaism
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.