Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2041
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in M?awa, Poland in 1920. He recalls his family's move to Busko-Zdro?j in 1928, then Krako?w in 1931; membership in the Bund; distributing anti-German leaflets; German invasion; escaping to L'viv in the Soviet zone; German invasion in 1941; being injured during an anti-Jewish riot during which many Jews were killed; help from Polish nurses; obtaining permission to join his family in Cze?stochowa; a beating when he was identified as a Jew at the Krako?w railroad station; living with his family in the Cze?stochowa ghetto; deportation of his parents and sister to Treblinka; forced factory labor with his brother; planning an uprising, procuring weapons, and building bunkers; surviving the ghetto uprising; transfer to Buchenwald, then Dora/Nordhausen; evacuation; liberation by United States troops; convalescing in Seesen; building a memorial there; reunion with his girlfriend in Feldafing; marriage in Seesen; moving to the Eschwege displaced persons camp; working for ORT; and emigrating with his wife and brother to the United States. He discusses his trip to Poland in 1984 and the organization of the underground in Cze?stochowa.

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

  • S., Joseph, -- 1920-

Corporate Bodies

  • Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
  • World ORT Union.
  • Dora (Concentration camp)
  • Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Nordhausen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Refugee camps.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • Brothers.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Mass killings.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Resistance.
  • Bunkers.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Częstochowa.
  • Forced labor.

Places

  • Busko-Zdrój (Poland)
  • Mława (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Częstochowa (Poland)
  • Seesen (Lower Saxony, Germany)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • L'viv (Ukraine)
  • Eschwege (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Częstochowa ghetto.
  • Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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