Gregor S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Cantor Gregor S., who was raised in Liepa?ja, Latvia. This testimony includes much of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-104). Additional topics discussed include learning of mass murders in the Bikernieki Forest; resistance activities; feelings of being a "non-person" for years after the war; and his postwar marriage to an American. Cantor S. recites a Yiddish poem he wrote about meeting his wife.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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., Gregor, -- 1915-1999.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Jews -- Latvia -- Rīga.
- Friendship.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Poetry.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mass killings.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Resistance.
Places
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Rīga (Latvia)
- Libau (Latvia)
- Libava (Latvia)
- Bikernieki (Latvia : Forest)
- Rīga ghetto.
- Latvia.
- Liepāja (Latvia)
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat