Moric L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3590) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaša Almuli, May 17, 1996.

Belgrade, Serbia : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 27 min.) : col.

Videotape testimony of Moric L., who was born in Bihać, Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1908. He recalls training as a surveyor in Belgrade; marriage in Žepče; working in several towns for the Yugoslav land registry; his daughter's birth; serving in the military during German invasion; fleeing to Bihać rather than surrendering as ordered; anti-Jewish harassment and violence by the Ustaša; imprisonment with nine other Jewish men; being beaten; being sent to join his family in Bosanski Petrovac; their transfer to Prijedor; an official releasing them; traveling to Cazin where his brother was a physician; the local Muslims protecting them; joining the partisans with ten men; his wife serving in a partisan medical unit (she died); his daughter and mother being killed by Chetniks; military actions in many places as part of Tito's forces; ending the war as a major; his subsequent military career (he retired as a lieutenant colonel); marriage to a military physician (she was the first female general); and the births of two children. Mr. L. notes he is sorry to have lived to see the present conflict in Yugoslavia. He shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Moric L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3590). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Moric L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3590). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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