Marc S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Marc S., who was born in ?an?cut, a small town in Poland in 1914 and grew up in ?o?dz?. He notes his Jewish education, beginning with cheder at the age of three. He tells of his flight after the German occupation to Russian-occupied Bia?ystok and of his return, with the help of non-Jews, to ?o?dz? to rejoin his mother, sister, and brother. He describes the ?o?dz? ghetto, particularly its Jewish administration, for which he worked until his deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944. Mr. S. was the representative of the revisionist Zionist organization on the Jewish Council. He recounts the liquidation of the ghetto, during which he witnessed the murder of a baby by a German army officer. He discusses his life in the slave labor camp at Go?rlitz, where he was sent from Auschwitz and where he managed to survive by "organizing" extra food; the death march which lasted from February to May, 1945; and liberation by the Russians on May 8, 1945. Other recollections include his postwar return home, where he discovered that a brother and a sister had survived; his activities in a displaced persons camp in Germany, of which he was elected president; his emigration to the United States; and his hard work and eventual success in his new life in Hartford, Connecticut.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)