Irving S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1924. He recalls his father's atheism despite his family's orthodoxy (one brother was a cantor); German invasion in 1941; ghettoization in 1943; transport with 600 youths for forced labor in Larisa; public hanging of an escapee; return to Salonika six months later; finding all the Jews had been deported, including his family; deportation to Birkenau three days later; encountering his older brother (all other family had been killed); transfer to Auschwitz after two weeks; transfer to Warsaw three days later with other Greek prisoners; clearing rubble from the former ghetto; his brother's arrival; obtaining extra food due to his brother's privileged position because he spoke German; his brother's public hanging after an escape attempt; a death march, then train transport to Dachau, then Augsburg; working in a nearby village; a German woman feeding them in front of their guards; liberation by United States troops; meeting his future wife, a Polish survivor; marriage six weeks later in Ampfing; living in Feldafing, then Heidenheim displaced persons camps; and emigration to the United States in 1949. He shows a family photograph and discusses speaking to school groups about his experiences.

2 videocassettes