Eric S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in S?umperk, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1916. He recalls attending public school; religious instruction by a rabbi; active participation in a Zionist group; his father's death in 1933; attending university in 1934; German occupation; forced expulsion from their town; imprisonment for six weeks in 1940; marriage; living in a village; deportation with his wife and mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942; a privileged position since he knew several leaders; working in the gardens; smuggling food; learning deportation meant death; deteriorating conditions; deportation to Auschwitz in fall 1944 (he never saw his mother or wife again); transfer to a Bavarian slave labor camp in early 1945; train evacuation; escape with many others; liberation by United States troops; living in Munich; returning to Prague; marriage in 1947; and emigration to Canada in 1947. Mr. S. discusses Theresienstadt's prisoner administration; numbness in Auschwitz; and a recent trip to Czechoslovakia with his children, which helped them to better understand his background.

3 videocassettes