Solomon R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- R., Solomon -- 1908-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- HIAS (Agency)
Subjects
- Men.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Ulm (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat