Max S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1782
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Max S., who was born in Iu?e, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recalls working as a carpenter for the Soviets in 1939; visiting an aunt in Baranvichy in 1941; German invasion; hiding in an attic during a mass killing in Iu?e; transfer to the Lida ghetto in December; forced labor as a carpenter; a Jew reporting him for leaving the ghetto; interception by a German; escaping back to the ghetto; fleeing to the woods with four others; joining a partisan unit of Jews and Russians; blowing up German trains; learning his family was killed; living in ?o?dz?, Berlin, and a refugee camp in Munich after the war; emigration to the United States in June 1947; and marriage in 1948. Mr. S. notes feelings of revenge when blowing up German trains, and sharing his experiences with his son.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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., Max, -- 1924-

Subjects

  • Resistance.
  • Forests.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
  • Revenge.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Partisans.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Hiding.
  • Mass killings.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Lida.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Escapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Baranavichy (Belarus)
  • Poland.
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Lida (Belarus)
  • Lida ghetto.
  • Ivje (Poland)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Iŭe (Belarus)
  • Berlin (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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