Shaul S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shaul S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the second of three children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending a Jewish school; his father purchasing property in the Netherlands; moving to Oosterbeek after Adolf Hitler's 1933 election; moving to Arnhem; joining Maccabi Hatzair; attending the Berlin Olympics in 1936; his maternal grandparents joining them after Kristallnacht; his grandparents' relocation to Westerbork as German refugees; their release to Amsterdam; working in his father's poultry business; moving to Amsterdam; German invasion in May 1940; returning to Arnhem; working on a farm in Brummen; meetings of his Zionist group in Dieren; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; paying to be smuggled to Switzerland; the person he paid using the funds to have himself smuggled; leaving the farm when he was notified to appear for a work camp in June 1942; returning home; obtaining permission in Zutphen to postpone his deportation; building a forest bunker with three others and hiding there for a month; the property owner rescinding permission for them to stay; returning home; learning his family was in hiding; members of a hachsharah in Deventer arranging for him to be hidden; hiding with families in Voorst, then in a village with twenty other Jews; their arrest; imprisonment in Brummen; transfer to Arnhem; deportation to Westerbork in fall 1942; forced labor sorting produce and building fences; his group organizing a Hanukkah celebration for the children; the camp commander observing them and listing them as a protected group; hospitalization; and being warned the patients were to be deported.

10 videocassettes