David S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3082
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Dubeczno, Poland in 1923. He recalls attending public school, then yeshiva; antisemitic violence in school; leaving yeshiva against his parents' wishes; living with a sister in Lublin; German invasion in September 1939; returning home; going to a brother's home in W?odowa; crossing to the Soviet zone; being forced to move to Kovel?; deportation with his brothers to a forced labor camp in Siberia; release in 1942; traveling to Tashkent; working in Kazakhstan; returning to Lublin in spring 1944; learning of the "final solution" and Sobibor; returning to W?odowa; a non-Jewish neighbor sheltering him and informing him that his parents and younger siblings had been deported; rejoining his brothers in Lublin; living in ?o?dz?, Berlin, then Munich; and emigration to Canada in 1949. He notes assistance from the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Extent and Medium

2 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., David, -- 1923-

Corporate Bodies

  • Canadian Jewish Congress.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Forced labor -- Soviet Union.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Dubeczno (Poland)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Kazakhstan.
  • Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Włodowa (Poland)
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Kovelʹ (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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