Interview with Holocaust survivor Mordecai Topel Part 3/15

Interview with Holocaust survivor Mordecai Topel on 7/21/95 by Miriam Horowitz. Recorded for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (http://college.usc.edu/vhi/cataloguingi ndexing.php).

Topel, Mordecai, 4163
Jewish Survivor
Question Answer
Name of Interviewee Mordecai Topel
Mordecai Topel (release name)
Mordka Topel (name at birth)
Mordecai Zev (Hebrew name)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 6/30/1920
City of Birth Ostrowiec (Kielce, Poland)
Country of Birth Poland
Religious Identity (Prewar) orthodox Judaism
Religious Identity (Postwar) orthodox Judaism
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)
Ghetto(s) Ostrowiec (Kielce, Poland : Ghetto)
Camp(s) Flossenbürg (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Starachowice (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Günthergrube (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Blizyn (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Went into Hiding No
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s) No
Hiding or living under false identity (Location)
Type of hiding place
Resistance Group(s)
Liberated by armed forces, United States
Location of liberation Upper Bavaria (Bavaria, Germany : Province)
Fled from Nazi controlled territory No
Forced (death) Marches Yes
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant
Other Experiences displaced persons camps
State of Interview NJ
Country of Interview U.S.A.
Language(s) of Interview English
Length of Interview 2:22
Interview Code 4163

Category:

Education

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• mordecai
• topel
• holocaust
• education
• israel
• poland
• worldwarII
• aushwitz
• teaneck
• newyork
• printing
• chile
• britain
• german

[celloswiss]

Excellent recounting of these terrible events. Mr Topel has an excellent memory for details. Very revealing.

[sunbabie551]

thank God for Steven Spielberg AND all those who went to interivew this amazing survivors. How there can STILL be deniers, is beyond me, and God blees all the survivors for thier persaverence during these incredibly horrifying circumstances.

[rambo753]

It was the Jew Yagoda who invented the GULAG system... and this much before WWII

And Jews most ran gulags and were in the CEKA.

[alanheath3]

Excellent interview and very good speaker with lots of detail.

Pity Yad Vashem cannot do such good interviews.

[PoutyLoki1]

God bless you mr Topel, you describe a nightmare that was all too real for far too many. You and all of them remain in my thoughts and prayers forever.

[macturbo789]

urr nice vid