David M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in 1921. He recalls pervasive antisemitism in Luta, Poland; his father's murder in 1932; working in his family's bakery to supply bread for the ghetto; transfer to Jelen; learning his family was killed during his absence; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; starvation and disease; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; forced labor in Siegmar-Schoenau; carrying a friend during a death march through Czechoslovakia; receiving food from Czech bystanders; liberation by the American Red Cross in Lidice; traveling to Prague, then Luta; returning to Prague after a friend's murder and the Kielce pogrom; the Joint's assistance in moving to Landsberg displaced persons camp; leaving because he did not feel free; founding a business with a friend in Germany; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States after five years. Mr. M. discusses achieving success and his strong patriotic feelings.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- M., David, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- American Red Cross.
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Death marches.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
Places
- Siegmar-Schoenau (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Germany.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Poland.
- Jelen (Poland)
- Luta (Poland)
- Lidice (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat