Moshe B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1832
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Moshe B., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1921, one of five children. Mr. B. recounts participating in a Zionist youth group; moving to Krako?w; German invasion; fleeing east with his brother and friends; hiding in Lez?ajsk; returning to Krako?w; visiting his family in Dzia?oszyce; creating false papers for Jewish women to use as Polish forced laborers in Germany; working in Krako?w; sending packages to his family; attending clandestine Zionist meetings; returning to Dzia?oszyce; establishment of a Judenrat; deportation to Miecho?w; remaining with two brothers when separated from his family (they were deported to Be?z?ec); transfer to Prokocim, then a nearby camp; slave labor breaking coal; a supervisor sharing food; transfer to another camp; escaping; returning to Dzia?oszyce; hiding in a bunker; returning to Krako?w; hiding with a non-Jewish friend; and joining his brothers in the labor camp.

Extent and Medium

16 videocassettes

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

  • Schindler, Oskar, -- 1908-1974.
  • Surkis, Mordechai.
  • Kovner, Abba, -- 1918-1987.
  • B., Moshe, -- 1921-2007.
  • Göth, Amon, -- 1908-1946.
  • Eichmann, Adolf, -- 1906-1962 -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Brünnlitz (Concentration camp)
  • Rogoznica (Concentration camp)
  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  • Beriḥah (Organization)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Escapes.
  • Brothers.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Revenge.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
  • War crime trials.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Public opinion -- Israel.
  • Hiding.
  • Mutual aid.
  • False papers.
  • Bunkers.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forced labor.
  • Zionists.
  • Jewish councils.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Działoszyce (Poland)
  • Leżajsk (Poland)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Miechów (Miechów, Poland)
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Pontebba (Italy)
  • Mogliano (Italy)
  • Bari (Italy)
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Prokocim (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Kraków ghetto.
  • Spittal an der Drau (Austria : Refugee camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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