Stephen D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Stephen D., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1918. He describes comfortable relations with non-Jews; working in the family textile business; joining a Zionist organization; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1936; incarceration in 1938 in Bereza Kartuska, a Polish government camp; fleeing with his brother to Lut?s??k, Ukraine after the outbreak of war; a brief return to Poland to marry; his parents and sister joining them in Lut?s??k; his father's return to Poland (they never saw him again); German invasion; separation from his mother, sister, and brother; living with his wife under false papers; fleeing with his wife and non-Jewish friends to Russia; three months slave labor with his friend in August 1941; escaping to Penza; working as a driver; volunteering to serve in the Soviet army; his child's birth in Lut?s??k; moving with his family to Saratov; learning his mother-in-law had survived; and returning to Tomaszo?w. Mr. D. relates fleeing from Poland with assistance from Berih?ah; living with his wife and mother-in-law in displaced persons camps for almost four years; learning trades with assistance from UNRRA; emigration to the United States in 1949; and his adjustment to a new life.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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People
- D., Stephen, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Bereza Kartuska (Concentration camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Beriḥah (Organization)
Subjects
- Zionists.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- False papers.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Soviet occupation.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Penza (Russia)
- Saratov (Russia)
- Poland.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Lut︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat