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• Author/Creator:M., Charles, 1926-
  
• Title:Charles M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1656) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ada Bloom and Janet Brown, March 24, 1991.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 55 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1656)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Moshenberg, Charles. Interview 8488. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Charles M., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Hebrew and public schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in a Bundist children's group; German invasion; ghettoization in October 1939; working in a forced labor camp in 1940, then in a factory near the ghetto; mass shootings, which included his mother and brother; and his father's deportation. Mr. M. recounts deportation in 1942 to Ostrowiec; transport to Birkenau, then Auschwitz, in 1944; the death march to Melk in early 1945; slave labor digging underground bunkers; transfer to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops in early May; traveling to Italy; Zionist training on a farm; moving to the Feldafing displaced persons' camp; being smuggled to Brussels in 1946; living with cousins; working as a tailor; marriage in 1948; and emigration to the United States in 1951. He details conditions in the ghetto and camps and discusses the importance of aggressiveness in obtaining food and optimism to his survival.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Charles M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1656). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:M., Charles, 1926-
  Ostrowiec (Concentration camp)
  Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Ebensee (Concentration camp)
  Melk (Concentration camp)
  Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Death marches.
  Poland.
  Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
  Brussels (Belgium)
  Italy.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Mass killings.
  Postwar experiences.
  Child survivors.
  Zionist organizations.
  Piotrków ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Bloom, Ada, interviewer.
  Brown, Janet, interviewer.