Morris Kornberg
Nació: 1918, en Przedborz, Poland
Describe los trabajos forzados empezando después de la invasión alemana de Polonia [Entrevista: 1990]
As I can remember, right away from the beginning, it was like a, a law of the German called the commissar, who was in charge of the little town, called us over and he said that we all, uh, from 13, aged 13 to 50, we have to, uh, perform labor. Every day we have to go, to the, to do some work. We used to go to the, the Jewish Kulturgemeinde [community center]. Over there we have been assigned like mostly cleaning, taking away old brick, cleaning up--ah, yes, it didn't make any different--but in the evening we had been allowed to go back at home. Later on they assigned me, mostly mine age from the, from the city, to, uh, Steinbruch [breaking stones]. We used to mine stones. Those stones had been for the, for the roads, they built new roads and so those stones went to the roads, and so, uh, this was pretty heavy work, everything. But still I was pretty young and healthy and I got adjusted, and I, and I did my work.
As I can remember, right away from the beginning, it was like a, a law of the German called the commissar, who was in charge of the little town, called us over and he said that we all, uh, from 13, aged 13 to 50, we have to, uh, perform labor. Every day we have to go, to the, to do some work. We used to go to the, the Jewish Kulturgemeinde [community center]. Over there we have been assigned like mostly cleaning, taking away old brick, cleaning up--ah, yes, it didn't make any different--but in the evening we had been allowed to go back at home. Later on they assigned me, mostly mine age from the, from the city, to, uh, Steinbruch [breaking stones]. We used to mine stones. Those stones had been for the, for the roads, they built new roads and so those stones went to the roads, and so, uh, this was pretty heavy work, everything. But still I was pretty young and healthy and I got adjusted, and I, and I did my work.
Morris creció en una casa judía muy religiosa y era activo en un liga deportiva sionista. Cuando los alemanes invadieron Polonia en septiembre de 1939, el pueblo de Morris fue severamente dañado. La familia de Morris fue forzada a vivir en un ghetto, y Morris fue asignado a hacer trabajos forzados. Después de un periodo de encarcelación en Konskie, un pueblo a 30 millas de Przedborz, Morris fue deportado al campo de Auschwitz. Fue asignado al campo de Jawischowitz dentro de Auschwitz. En enero de 1945, Morris fue enviado en una marcha de la muerte y mandado primero al subcampo de Troeglitz en el campo de concentración de Buchenwald, y después a Theresienstadt. Después de la guerra, se quedó por un tiempo en Checoslovaquia y Alemania antes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos.
— US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections
