Mikel C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mikel C., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He describes his affluent family; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; beatings of Jews: illegally entering France; arrest in Metz; transfer to Germany; arrests for illegally entering Holland and Belgium; incarceration in a Belgian refugee camp; release to study art in Antwerp with assistance from the Jewish community; German invasion; traveling to Brussels; watching the British evacuation at Dunkerque; translating for the SS in Calais as a non-Jew; joining his sister in Brussels (she later emigrated to the United States); managing a nightclub for German officers; rejoining his parents in Vienna; appraising valuables confiscated from Jews for a German official; hiding with his parents during deportations; and escape to Bucharest via Zagreb. Mr. C. recalls their deportation to Czernowitz, then Mogilev; sadistic killing of Jewish children; transfer to Baca?u; forced labor at a leather factory; sabotaging the work; escaping; joining the partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling with his parents to Bucharest; marriage; moving to Salzburg; visiting displaced persons camps; joining the Irgun; sabotaging British trains; living in Paris; and emigration to the United States. Mr. C. notes he is plagued by memories, particularly of victimized children, and he shows photographs and his drawings.
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
- C., Mikel, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Irgun tsevaʾi leʾumi.
Subjects
- Family.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Sabotage.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Escapes.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Mogilev (Belarus)
- Cernāut̨ai (Romania)
- Mahili︠o︡ŭ (Belarus)
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Czernowitz (Austria)
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Bacău (Romania)
- Paris (France)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Metz (France)
- Dunkerque (France)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Calais (France)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Poland.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat