Joseph S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Lut?s??k, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933, one of four children. He recounts German invasion in June 1941; mass shootings, including three of his uncles; ghettoization; pervasive deaths; his mother's emphasis on running, rather than acceptance; scouting the ghetto at night for escape routes; escaping with his mother and sister in June 1942; staying briefly with non-Jewish friends; learning from them the ghetto population had been killed in a mass shooting; hiding in the forest; and liberation by Soviet troops in February 1944. Mr. S. notes ninety relatives were killed in the Holocaust; frozen toes resulting in pain to the present day; sleeplessness due to painful memories; and the Lut?s??k survivors erecting a monument to the Jews murdered there.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Joseph, -- 1933-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Mass killings.
- Forests.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Child survivors.
- Escapes.
- Mothers and sons.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lut︠s︡ʹk.
Places
- Lut︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
- Lut︠s︡ʹk ghetto.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat