Max K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1964) [videorecording] / interviewed by Larry Steinfeld and Nathan Wolkowitz, December 15, 1992.

Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 36 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Kugler, Max. Interview 55138. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Max K., who was born in Cernaŭți, Romania in 1937. He recalls Soviet occupation; the outbreak of war; a forced march, with his parents and grandmother, to the Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ ghetto in 1941; ghettoization; pervasive hunger and lack of sanitation; their escape with assistance from a Ukrainian farmer in 1942; hiding with his parents and grandmother at the farmer's house until 1944; returning to the ghetto with his parents; and liberation by Soviet partisans. Mr. K. recounts fleeing from Mohyliv with his parents and grandmother; public execution of German soldiers by partisans; walking to Ploiești, then moving to Bucharest with his parents; illegally walking through Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1948 to get to Rome; emigrating to Canada; attending school and learning a new language; marriage; his parents' deaths; and emigration with his family to the United States. He discusses memories of Romanies in the ghetto; fears of Germans when hiding on the farm; and the importance to their survival of luck and his father's skills and ingenuity. He shows family photographs.

June 01, 2002

Max K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1964). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Max K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1964). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)