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Author/Creator:G., Moritz, 1927-
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Title:Moritz G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2569) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, June 10, 1993.
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Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 41 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2569)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Moritz G., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family belonging to the Ger Hasidic movement; attending Jewish schools; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father's escape to the Soviet Union; his mother's three-month imprisonment; a round-up including his two-year-old brother; ghettoization; forced labor as a tailor; his clandestine bar mitzvah; transfer with his family to the Łódź ghetto; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation with his brother from his family; transfer to Friedland about ten days later; a privileged position working indoors; abandonment by German guards; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Łódź with his brother; reunion with a cousin who told them their father was alive in Russia; returning to Friedland, then Brzeziny; traveling to Nuremberg; living in Regensburg and Berlin; his brother's murder in a robbery in December 1945; marriage; his son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1950; reunion with his father in Israel in 1955; moving his brother's grave to Israel in 1975; and visits with his father until his death in 1989. He shows photographs, documents, and a plaque.
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Cite as:Moritz G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2569). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:G., Moritz, 1927-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Forced labor.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Brzeziny (Łódź)
Jews--Poland--Łódź.
Bar mitzvah.
Brothers.
Poland.
Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Nuremberg (Germany)
Regensburg (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Brzeziny ghetto.
Łódź ghetto.
Friedland (Poland : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288197