Aaron S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1521
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Aaron S., who was born in 1909, one of six children. He recounts moving from Radomys?l Wielki to work in Krako?w; starting a shirt factory; anti-Jewish boycotts; draft into the Polish military; German invasion; being wounded and captured; escaping; returning to his family home in Radomys?l Wielki; brief arrest in Tarno?w while smuggling food; ghettoization in Radomys?l Wielki; hiding with his family in the forest during a round-up; walking to the De?bica ghetto; bribing the Judenrat to obtain documents so they could remain; slave labor on a railroad; transfer with his brother and cousin to P?aszo?w; slave labor exhuming Jewish bodies; digging mass graves; public executions; becoming numb to violence and killings; separation from his relatives upon transfer to Szebnie; sorting Jewish belongings; finding a small pair of teffilin with which he prayed secretly; return to P?aszo?w; transfer to Mielec, then Wieliczka; escaping during train transfer; a non-Jewish farmer hiding him briefly; hiding with other escapees in fields and forests; liberation by Soviet troops; walking to Rzeszo?w, then Krako?w; marriage to a survivor; moving to Heidelberg; his son's birth; and emigration to join uncles in the United States in 1948. Mr. S. discusses details of camp life; pervasive painful memories resulting in nightmares; his children's lack of interest in his experiences; and being the sole survivor of his family of forty-six.

Extent and Medium

4 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

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