Marcel S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marcel S., who was born in Nancy, France in 1929. He recalls living in the Jewish section; speaking Yiddish; German invasion; fleeing with his family; living in Bordeaux for fourteen months; their return to Nancy; anti-Jewish restrictions; apprenticeship as a watchmaker; removing his star before he went to work; sheltering fleeing Jews in their home; having his bar mitzvah in secret; a warning from non-Jewish friends that Germans were looking for them; hiding in a vacant house for nine months; slow starvation, in spite of assistance from friends; liberation by United States troops in summer 1944; his mother's death; enlisting in the military in 1949; visiting Canada after his discharge; settling in Calgary; and his brother, sister, and father joining him. Mr. S. discusses his inability to forgive and pervasive, painful memories.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Marcel, -- 1929-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences,
- Postwar effects.
- Child survivors.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
Places
- Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
- France.
- Nancy (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat