Michael M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Michael M., who was born in Apa, Romania in 1917. He recalls attending cheder; his mother's death when he was thirteen; learning shoemaking and working in Seini until 1939; service in the Romanian army; Hungarian occupation in 1940; transfer to a Hungarian slave labor battalion; forced labor in Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Dej, Budapest, Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; deserting in 1944 and hiding for three weeks; recapture in Pribeník, and placement in another battalion; the commander's efforts to protect "his" Jews; marching to camps including Graz, Eisenerz, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen; and liberation. Mr. M. recounts recuperating in Wels; reunion with his sister in Apa; fleeing to Vienna in 1947; living in displaced persons camps in the Rothschild Hospital and in Linz; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. He notes his desire to forget his wartime experience.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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., Michael, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Refugee camps.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Hiding.
Places
- Romania.
- Dej (Romania)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Apa (Romania)
- Baia Mare (Romania)
- Nagybánya (Romania)
- Graz (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Pribeník (Slovakia)
- Seini (Romania)
- Linz (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Gunskirchen (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Wels (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Eisenerz (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Rothschild Hospital (Vienna, Austria : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat