Morris K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland. Mr. K. describes the Russian occupation, after which he was made the manager of a department store; the German occupation of Pruz?h?any; the Judenrat and confinement in a ghetto; and a confrontation between German officers and partisans which led to the liquidation of the ghetto and Mr. K's deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. He details his injury during an enemy bombing and his subsequent narrow escape from the crematoria; the death march to Mauthausen; slave labor in Melk; his liberation from Ebensee; brief visits to Germany and Austria; and his emigration to the United States. Mr. K. also describes his participation in survivor activities and his appearances as a school speaker since his retirement in 1976.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Morris, -- 1921?-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Pruz︠h︡any.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Soviet occupation.
- Death marches.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Politics and government.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
Places
- Pruz︠h︡any ghetto.
- Poland.
- Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat