Sol F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sol F., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1907. He describes his mother's struggles to support the family after his father's death; becoming a dancer; deteriorating conditions for Jews from 1941 onward; forced labor on the Russian front in 1942; one family visit; transport to Auschwitz; beatings and hunger; and transfer to Longwy-Thil, France where he worked approximately one year. He describes a forced march; working in a salt mine at Heilbronn; transfer to Dachau, then Passau; desertion by SS guards; foraging for food; exchanging clothes with a German soldier; receiving a document from General Eisenhower at a hospital in Mittenwald; living in Feldafing; returning to Cluj (none of his family survived); escaping to the American zone; working for the American forces; and writing a letter to Eisenhower, who helped him come to the United States. Other topics include his belief that God helped him survive; pride in his daughter; nightmares; frequent thoughts of his children who did not survive; and his decision not to tell his daughter about his experiences.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)