Fred S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Stawiszyn, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; working at fifteen; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Kalisz in 1940; transfer to Koz?minek; deportation of all children including his younger siblings (they were killed); deportation with his brother and father to Poznan?-Schweiningen; slave labor unloading coal; public hangings; trying to obtain soup for his father from a cousin (he refused); his father's selection in 1942 (he never saw him again); transfer with his brother to Auschwitz (he never saw his mother, sister and brother again), then to Zgoda (S?wie?toch?owice); slave labor demolishing buildings, then in the kitchen; his brother's disappearance (he never saw him again); a beating for smuggling potatoes; transfer to Mauthausen; a death march; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wels; traveling to Salzburg displaced persons camp, then to Modena; returning to Germany; living in Munich, Landsberg and Feldafing displaced persons camps, then Moosburg with a cousin; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses always believing in God and sharing his experiences with his children when they were older.

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