Norbert S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in 1923. This testimony includes much of the information from an earlier interview (HVT-839). Additional topics discussed include his childhood and bar mitzvah in Gdynia; the family move to L'viv in 1935; liquidation of the ghetto resulting in his separation from his father; entering Janowska camp with assistance from a Russian guard; public executions; escape; hiding with a Ukrainian woman; obtaining false papers with assistance from a Russian guard; reunion with his sister in Kolomyi︠a︡; hiding in a stable with assistance from a non-Jewish woman from 1943 until 1944; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. discusses continuing nightmares and his children's reluctance to hear about his experiences.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (betacam sp)
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., Norbert, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Janowska (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Postwar effects.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Brothers and sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Nightmares.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- L'vov ghetto.
- Paris (France)
- Kolomyi︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- L'viv (Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Gdynia (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat