Avraham S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Avraham S., who was born in Jēkabpils, Latvia in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; attending university in Rīga in 1939; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; forced labor clearing rubble; hearing rumors Jēkabpils's Jews had been murdered; his landlord, a Latvian priest, saving his life by hiding him during a round-up; ghettoization; daily slave labor; several mass killings; the arrival of Jews from Germany and Austria; transfer to Kaiserwald, then to Dundangen; slave labor building the camp; daily deaths; escaping with a friend; hiding in a barn; the owner caring for them for eleven months; liberation by Soviet troops; and returning to Rīga.
Extent and Medium
3 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., Avraham, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Dondangen (Concentration camp)
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Mass killings.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Jews -- Latvia -- Rīga.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Escapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Rīga (Latvia)
- Jēkabpils (Latvia)
- Latvia.
- Rumbuli (Latvia : Forest)
- Rīga (Latvia : Concentration camp)
- Rīga ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat