Jack S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1915, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; German invasion; "Bloody Monday" following the invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation to Ciechano?w in 1941; slave labor digging trenches; escaping with two friends; hiding in a forest; returning home; hiding briefly in 1943; his sister being shot trying to join him; his parents' and sisters' deportation; slave labor with his brothers at the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops; marriage to a survivor; traveling with his wife and brothers to Frankfurt; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences; sharing his experiences with his children; and his wife's recent death.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Jack, -- 1915-
Corporate Bodies
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews -- Poland -- Częstochowa.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Nightmares.
- Brothers.
- Forests.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Częstochowa ghetto.
- Ciechanów (Concentration camps : Poland)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Poland.
- Lublin (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat