Interview with Holocaust survivor Mordecai Topel Part 15/15

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

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[grai]

Wonderful

Is he still alive?

[TheDJMLA]

its amazing how many times he avoided death

[ESponge2000]

Thanks for sharing, I watched all 15 clips.

[sr633]

So many good minds and men like him wasted, a great loss . I'm glad he made it.

[yeldarb11]

great example of a complete Spielberg interview. I wish these interviews were more available on line. One possible error I noticed was the picture of him in his concentration camp uniform (4:07). A lot of photographers at the time would have a concentration camp uniform which people would put on and take a picture. This may have been the case. Thanks so much for making this testimony available.

[koalek]

Thanks for sharing.