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• Author/Creator:B., Moses, 1909-
  
• Title:Moses B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1706) [videorecording] / interviewed by Pam Goodman and Toby Blum-Dobkin, November 6, 1990.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 49 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.1706)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Moses B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1909. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; having to work after his bar mitzvah to help support his family; studying before and after work; German invasion; being rounded-up with other men and tortured for three days; his release when his family paid a ransom; his father visiting another town (he never saw him again); ghettoization; his mother's death from starvation; assignment of Mordecai Rumkowski's and David Gertler's adopted children to his work detail; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer with his brother to Friedland a week later; slave labor in an airplane factory; praying with others on Yom Kippur; liberation in May 1945; traveling to Prague then Budapest; assistance from the Red Cross and Joint; planning his emigration to Palestine with Beriḥah; living in Bari and Rome, Italy; deciding to join his cousins in the United States; and sharing his experiences with his daughter. Mr. B. discusses nightmares; hostility toward Germans; difficulty believing what he lived through; and the impossibility of really conveying his experiences.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Moses B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1706). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Moses, 1909-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  Beriḥah (Organization)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Łódź.
  Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  Brothers.
  Nightmares.
  Poland.
  Łódź (Poland)
  Prague (Czech Republic)
  Budapest (Hungary)
  Bari (Italy)
  Rome (Italy)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Postwar effects.
  Łódź ghetto.
  Friedland (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.