Jack S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Martynuv Stary, Poland (now Ukraine), one of twelve children. He recalls attending a Catholic school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; posing as a non-Jew and joining Ukrainian partisans in Bukachevtsy with his two brothers and a sister; killing a Jewish policeman in self defense; joining Soviet and Polish partisans; armed conflicts between partisan groups; moving to Stanis?awo?w; burying Jews shot in a mass killing; working on a farm; bringing his sisters and their children to work there; being saved from exposure because his nephew was not circumcised; other mass shootings of Jews; killing people who threatened their exposure; draft into the Soviet army in 1944; attending officer's school; marriage; capturing Germans in ?o?dz?; reunion with a sister; deserting; traveling to France in 1946; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses a 1960 reunion with his brother and other relatives in Moscow; doubting the existence of God; and surviving due to his ability to pose as a Catholic. He shows photographs.

2 videocassettes