Jack S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in C?ierna nad Tisou, Czechoslovakia in 1922, to a Hasidic family of twelve children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation; his father's fatal beating by Hungarian gendarmes; his mother's death six months later; escaping from a round-up with his nephew; separating from him in Trebis?ov; traveling home, then to Kos?ice; receiving false papers from a military man from his hometown; working in a stable; being recognized by another man from his village; deportation to Auschwitz; his assignment collecting corpses; transfer to Mauthausen after five weeks; surviving because he worked in the kitchen; transfer to Schachendorf; hospitalization; a doctor who had previously known him protecting him from selections; another prisoner holding him up during appells; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Budapest; reunion with a brother (four of them survived); returning home; smuggling others, his family, and himself to Germany; and emigration to Canada in December 1947. Mr. S. discusses losing the desire to escape in concentration camps due to extreme hunger; the importance of remaining religious; and gratitude to many non-Jews who saved his and other Jews' lives. He shows photographs.

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