Adam S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Adam S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russia) in 1905. He recounts growing up in ?o?dz?; his family identifying themselves with Polish, not Jewish culture; his brother's execution and his father's imprisonment during the Russian Revolution; obtaining a degree in electrical engineering; retuning to Warsaw; employment by the government beginning in 1931; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; evacuation with his wife and daughter to Romania due to his employment status; volunteering for the Polish military in France; separation from his family; German invasion; internment as a prisoner-of-war in Belfort; separation of Jewish prisoners; forced labor gathering munitions; transfer to Stalag XVII A; relatively benign conditions due to the decency of the Germans overseeing them; transfers to several camps; receiving packages from his family; learning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and realizing his family had likely been killed; transfer to Germany in February 1945; abandonment by Germans; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Strasbourg; reunion with his wife and daughter; attending Yom Kippur services in Nice; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses his wife's and daughter's experiences in hiding; his father's death in the Warsaw ghetto; and his sister's execution as a Polish Communist official in Stalin's purges.

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