Mark A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mark A., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's move to Krako?w; learning of Kristallnacht from Jews expelled from Germany; membership in a Zionist organization; his mother's death in 1938; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his father; his escape from Lublin to Krako?w with assistance from local farmers; returning to Lublin to look for his father and brother; their deportation to the Be?z?yce ghetto in April 1941; working in a quarry; hiding with his father and brother during round-ups; the role of the Judenrat; mass killings during liquidation of the ghetto; deportation with his father and brother to Budzyn?; forced labor at a Messerschmitt factory; public executions; an unsuccessful group attempt to bake matzo; deportation with his father and brother to Majdanek in February 1943; the death march to Kras?nik in August 1944; an unsuccessful escape attempt; and transport with his father and brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau. Mr. A. describes separation from his father and brother during evacuation from Blechhammer; waking up in an Allied military hospital; reunion with his father and brother; traveling to Munich; his brother's and father's emigration to Israel; and emigrating to the United States in 1949.
Extent and Medium
3 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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- A., Mark, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm.
- Budzyń (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mass killings.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Poland -- Bełżyce.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Brothers.
- Fathers and sons.
- Child survivors.
- Death marches.
- Jewish councils.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Kraśnik (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Tarnopol (Poland)
- Bełżyce ghetto.
- Poland.
- Ternopilʹ (Ukraine)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat