Salomon W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Salomon W., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1930. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; the deaths of younger siblings; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; trying to return to Pu?tusk; learning en route that all Jews had been expelled to the Soviet zone; staying with a cousin in Ciechano?w; German book burnings; smuggling themselves to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; attending Yiddish school; deportation to a refugee camp near Arkhangel?sk; attending school while his parents worked; moving briefly to Novosibirsk in mid-1941; living in Shymkent and Lenger, Kazakhstan; a Yiddish theater performance; his mother's hospitalization for typhus; maintaining Jewish life; daily tutoring in Torah studies; his bar mitzvah in 1943; traveling to ?o?dz? in 1946; graffiti written on train station walls by deported Jews pleading for remembrance and revenge; antisemitic violence; searching for surviving family members; fleeing to a displaced persons camp in Bavaria; and joining an uncle in Strasbourg in 1947. Mr. W. notes his survival was due to circumstances, not design, and his pride at seeing Jewish soldiers during his first visit to Israel in 1960.

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