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• Author/Creator:M., Mark, 1922?-
  
• Title:Mark M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-496) [videorecording] / interviewed by Sylvia Abrams, September 13, 1984.
  
• Published/Created:Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 6 min.) : col.
  

• Yale Holdings

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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.0496)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Mark M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in approximately 1922, one of ten children. He recounts his parents' orthodoxy; attending school; working in his brother's commercial art studio; attending Betar meetings; participating in Maccabi; family vacations in Otwock; German invasion; his mother and brother being killed by German bombs; using identification papers of a non-Jewish friend who was killed; fleeing east; arrest on the Soviet border; brief imprisonment in Novosibirisk; deportation to a labor camp in Siberia; a brief reunion with his sister; transfer to Sumy; joining the Polish section of the Soviet army; attending officer training school; fighting in many places as the forces moved west; entering Majdanek after liberation; observing piles of burnt corpses; executions of German camp officials; transfer to Warsaw; visiting his sister in Łódź; deserting and traveling illegally to Berlin; recruitment by the Haganah in Munich; traveling to Marseille; illegal emigration by boat to Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for one year; release; marriage in 1948; serving in the Israeli army; and emigration to the United States in 1954 with assistance from his brother. He shows photographs and examples of his commercial artwork.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Mark M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-496). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:M., Mark, 1922?-
  Betar.
  Maccabi World Union.
  Majdanek (Concentration camp)
  Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  Haganah (Organization)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Refugee camps.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Jewish refugees.
  World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union.
  Brothers and sisters.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.
  Poland.
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Otwock (Poland)
  Novosibirsk (Russia)
  Sumy (Ukraine)
  Łódź (Poland)
  Berlin (Germany)
  Munich (Germany)
  Marseille (France)
  Cyprus.
  Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  False papers.
  Postwar experiences.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Abrams, Sylvia F. (Sylvia Fleck)