Meir B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Meir B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in 1912, one of five brothers. He recalls attending public school, cheder, and a Jewish gymnasium; attending university in Warsaw; teaching at the gymnasium from which he graduated; German invasion in September 1939; briefly fleeing east with his family; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of the family business; contacts with Oskar Schindler who was involved with their business; ghettoization; deportations; forced labor outside the ghetto; transfer to Krako?w concentration camp in June 1942; working in the infirmary; assistance from a doctor, his parents' friend; a mass killing; transfer in March 1943 to P?aszo?w; slave labor in a quarry, a carpentry workshop, and as a metal worker; brief hospitalization; visits with his father; his father and others continuing to pray despite harsh punishments of those who were discovered; his father's deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944 (he never saw him again); transfer to Schindler's factory in Bru?nnlitz in January 1945; improved conditions; and liberation by Soviet troops.
Extent and Medium
5 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
- B., Meir, -- 1912-
- Schindler, Oskar, -- 1908-1974.
Corporate Bodies
- Brünnlitz (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Fathers and sons.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Quarries and quarrying.
- Mass killings.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Austria.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat