Robert S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Vilna in 1935. He discusses family life before the war; the Russian occupation in 1939; and his father's refusal to accept Soviet citizenship, for which the family was exiled to Siberia. He relates the journey to Siberia and his family's internment in an exclusively Jewish camp within the Gulag system. He tells of his transfer to Kotlas, then Arkhangel?sk and of his family's flight from there to a small village near Kirov where they stayed until the liberation. Returning to Poland after the war, they were taken to a displaced persons camp in Bavaria, where they remained from 1945 until 1949. Mr. S. speaks of the active cultural life of the camp; emigration to Boston; and the need to remember the Holocaust.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Robert, -- 1935-
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
Places
- Poland.
- Vilna (Poland)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Siberia (Russia)
- Kotlas (Russia)
- Arkhangelʹsk (Russia)
- Kirov (Kirovskai︠a︡ oblast,́ Russia)
- Soviet Union.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat