Haim S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4079
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1998 - 31 Dec 1998
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony, he recounts the importance of singing to his family; his bar mitzvah; briefly fleeing to Toulouse at the German invasion; participating in Gordonyah; singing for extra food in the camps; public hangings; being raped by a German kapo; and his mother and sisters returning from Turkey after the war with Red Cross assistance. Mr. S. discusses reciting poetry and mentally calculating equations as a coping mechanism in the camps; continuing behaviors resulting from his camp experiences; his postwar political development leading him to embrace socialism; his marriages; continuing his education and his academic career in France; focusing on Sephardic languages and culture; and sharing his experiences with his son.

Extent and Medium

5 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Paul H. Holocaust testimony friend, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • S., Haim, -- 1923-

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Malines (Concentration camp)
  • Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaĘťir (Association)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Myslowice (Concentration camp)
  • Dora (Concentration camp)
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Bar mitzvah.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Friendship.
  • Rape.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
  • Death marches.

Places

  • Belgium.
  • Brussels (Belgium)
  • Toulouse (France)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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