Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, the third of four children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder at age three; completing Jewish trade school in 1938; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; he and his older sister working to support the family; ghettoization; smuggling food; working in a battery factory; volunteering for road building near Łęczna; assistance from a non-Jewish woman; escaping; doing farm work posing as a non-Jew; arrest; incarceration in Lublin; release by a Volksdeutsch guard who had been helped by a Jew; returning to the Warsaw ghetto; hiding with his family during round-ups; his parents' round-up while he was at work; he and his older sister smuggling them out of the Umschlagplatzr; his round-up; assignment to a factory outside the ghetto; visiting his parents; a Pole smuggling letters to him from his brother from which he learned his parents and sisters had been deported; learning his brother had been deported (none survived); several visits to the ghetto; acquiring guns; Polish civilian workers informing them of the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek.

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