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01/11/93

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Gillian Green Douek

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Moses M., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, the oldest of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; leaving school at thirteen to work in his parents' bakery; working in his uncle's bakery in Łódź; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor in a glass factory; having to stay in the factory while the ghetto was liquidated (he never saw his family again); transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; digging anti-tank trenches in 1944; transfer to Buchenwald, then to a forest near Leipzig; building a munitions factory; hospitalization after a beating; transfer to agricultural work; improved health due to receiving more food; transfer to Theresienstadt in April 1945; assistance from the Red Cross; hospitalization; liberation by Soviet troops; prisoners killing German soldiers; registering for transfer to England; arriving at Windermere in August; transfer to an orthodox hostel in London; working as a cook; marriage in 1951; and his daughter's birth. Mr. M. shows photographs and expresses his gratitude to England.
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