Monty T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Monty T., who was born in De?blin, Poland in 1928, one of six children. He recounts his family belonging to a Hasidic sect; their extreme poverty; attending cheder; speaking only Yiddish; antisemitic harassment; his older brother leaving home; German invasion; fleeing to an aunt's home in another town; returning home weeks later; Germans forcing his father to shave; reporting for forced labor in his father's place; ghettoization; transfer to De?blin camp with his sisters; his parents' deportation; slave labor on farms and at an airport; maintaining contact with his sisters; prisoners praying daily and singing Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur; a public hanging; transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1944; slave labor at HASAG Warta; separation from his sisters; his privileged work as a mechanic; many deaths due to hunger and disease; train transport to Buchenwald; slave labor clearing rubble in Weimar; transfer to Colditz; slave labor in a munitions factory; a death march to Theresienstadt; assistance from the Red Cross; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with his sisters in ?o?dz?; traveling to Prague, then Theresienstadt; traveling with a children's group to Windermere, England; transfer three weeks later to a hostel in Gateshead; studying watch making in Newcastle; marriage; the births of two sons; and maintaining contact with his sisters who had emigrated to Canada.
Extent and Medium
3 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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Monty, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Poland -- Dęblin (Warsaw)
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
Places
- Windermere (England)
- Gateshead (England)
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
- Dęblin ghetto.
- Dęblin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Colditz (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Weimar (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat