Max B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Max B., who was born in ?uko?w, Poland in 1918, the fifth of seven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; German invasion; hiding; capture with two brothers; transfer to Siedlce; one brother's escape; transfer to We?gro?w; escaping with his other brother; returning home; deportation with one brother to Rogoznica; his parents bribing officials for their release; ghettoization; his sister's deportation; one brother's death while trying to escape; hiding with his family during round-ups; forced labor; escaping from a round-up; returning to the ghetto; deportation; jumping from the train en route to Treblinka; joining other escapees; returning to ?uko?w; searching for his family (they had been deported); fleeing from Polish police; hiding on several farms; being joined by a group of armed Jews; battles with the Armia Krajowa; building a bunker in the forest; taking revenge on Polish informers; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Brest; arrest as suspected spies; release; returning to ?uko?w; traveling to Katowice, then Munich; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. B. discusses testifying in Germany at the trial of a German he had seen kill someone, and recently visiting the ?uko?w area with his children.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- B., Max, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Rogoznica (Concentration camp)
- Poland. -- Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Armia Krajowa.
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Forests.
- Partisans.
- Postwar experiences.
- Bunkers.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Revenge.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Brothers.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łuków.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Węgrów (Poland)
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Brest (Belarus)
- Łuków (Lublin, Poland)
- Poland.
- Munich (Germany)
- Łuków ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat