Sol S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sol S. who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1914. He recalls anti-Semitic incidents in public school; becoming a tailor at age thirteen; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother and neighbors to Sandomierz; hiding in the synagogue; transfer to Opato?w after they were discovered; the murder of many Jews; and returning to Krako?w. Mr. S. recounts bodies on the streets; forced labor in coal mines; ghettoization; burying women and babies murdered in the hospital; transfer to P?aszo?w; finding his mother, sisters, and their children there; mass killings; deportation to Mauthausen, then Melk; a death march to Ebensee; corpses strewn everywhere; bodies being burned day and night; carrying corpses to the crematorium; liberation; reunion with two sisters; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. S. notes family members who perished.
Extent and Medium
2 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
People
- S., Sol, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mass killings.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Sandomierz (Poland)
- Opatów (Tarnobrzeg, Poland)
- Kraków ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat