David S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0834
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1914, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his family's affluence; draft into the Polish military; capture by Germans in Tarnowskie Go?ry; incarceration in Stalag VIII A Go?rlitz for six months; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his family (he never saw any of them again); transfer to Lagisza; return to Auschwitz; hospitalization; working in the Union Kommando; the death march to Gross-Rosen; escaping from a train transport in Sudetenland; stealing civilian clothes; a woman recognizing him as a Jew and assisting him to look better; posing as a Polish forced laborer; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Zawiercie, seeking relatives but not finding anyone; traveling to Sosnowiec, Prague, then Munich; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. S. notes that, when he thinks about his experiences, he has difficulty believing they happened.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes (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., David, -- 1914-

Corporate Bodies

  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Stalag VIII A Görlitz.
  • Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Prisoners of war -- Germany.
  • Draft -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Escapes.
  • Death marches.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Zawiercie.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.

Places

  • Munich (Germany)
  • Zawiercie ghetto.
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Lagisza (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Tarnowskie Góry (Poland)
  • Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
  • Poland.
  • Zawiercie (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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