Saul C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Saul C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1916, one of seven brothers. Mr. C. recalls his father giving his children religious freedom despite his own orthodoxy; playing soccer on a team of Jews and non-Jews; participation in Zionist youth organizations; attending Jewish and Polish schools; working in his brother's factory; organizing self-defense groups of young Jewish men to resist attacks by Polish antisemites; bringing food and clothes to relatives in Siedlce following a pogrom; German invasion; antisemitism of former Polish friends; ghettoization; building bunkers in preparation for hiding; hiding in bunkers with twenty others; and liberation by Soviet troops.
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
- C., Saul, -- 1916-
Subjects
- Bunkers.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Zionist organizations.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat