Pincus and Sylvia S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Pincus S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1906, and his wife Sylvia S., who was born in Pultusk, Poland in 1922 and moved to ?o?dz? in 1937. Mr. S. tells of his prewar marriage to his first wife and his work as a furrier. Both Mr. and Mrs. S. speak of the German occupation of ?o?dz?; the torture and humiliation which followed; the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; ghetto life; their impressions of Rumkowski, elder of the Jewish Council of ?o?dz?; and round-ups and deportations from the ghetto. Mrs. S. describes the death of her father in the ghetto; her transport to Auschwitz in September 1942; separation from her mother and younger brother upon arrival; her transfer, three days later, to an ammunition factory in Freiberg (Saxony), where she remained until a month before liberation; a sustaining friendship with a fellow prisoner; evacuation to Mauthausen; and liberation. She also relates her unsuccessful postwar search for surviving relatives in Poland and Germany; meeting her present husband in Germany; and their emigration to the United States.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)