About this site
The method
The verbatim transcript is the document: his Portuguese is preserved as he spoke it, nothing corrected. Doubtful names were never guessed — they became [?]. Every statement on this site carries a certainty grade (confirmed · probable · hypothesis) and declares its source: the interview (with the minute), a document (with the reference), history (with bibliography) or an inference (always marked). His memory's contradictions were preserved, not resolved.
On the family's fate, the site uses one fixed formula: according to Mojsie himself [55:43], they all died at Majdanek — it is his statement; to this day no document confirms or contradicts it.
The thesis: built like an archive
A memorial cannot depend on anything that dies. This site is static, framework-free, with no trackers in the critical path, fonts and media self-hosted — built to last 50 years and to be rebuilt from scratch out of plain-text source files. The constraint is the concept.
Dates to remember
A subscribable calendar with the story's dates — his yahrzeit (20 Tishrei), the wedding, the arrival in Brazil: calendario.ics
Credits and rights
- Video and testimony: USC Shoah Foundation — Visual History Archive, interview 35919 (1997).
- Documents: Arolsen Archives · Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu · Museu da Imigração/APESP · Yad Vashem · USHMM · JDC Archives — reproduced with attribution, for family memory.
- Research, transcription and site: the family, 2026 — process documented in the repository (GitHub).
Privacy
This site asks for no signup, has no forms and no advertising. No data about living people is published here. The only thing loaded from outside is Google Analytics, loaded asynchronously and only on zeide.fpripas.com: it records pages visited, language, approximate country and device type, in aggregate — so we know whether the story is reaching anyone. We do not know who you are and we cross-reference this with nothing. To opt out, a tracker blocker or your browser's Do Not Track setting is enough; nothing on the site stops working. Video, audio, fonts and images are served by this server, with no third parties.
Colophon: plain HTML/CSS/JS, zero dependencies; Source Serif 4 and Source Sans 3 types (variable, self-hosted); custom icons; Node build. Verbatim compiled with an integrity check — sha256 c492b95bab35beee… · build 2026-09-02.