Sol S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning to Kaunas and seeking their mother; his brother's conscription into the Soviet army; traveling to ?o?dz? with his father; learning his mother had survived; fleeing to Berlin, then Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; his own marriage; and emigration with his wife and father to the United States in 1949. Mr. S. tells of his father's remarriage; learning in 1959 of his brother's and mother's survival (they were serving ten year sentences in Siberia); visiting them in the Soviet Union; annulment of his father's second marriage; and his mother's emigration to the United States in 1967 and his brother's to Israel in 1990. He notes these events never leave his mind.

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