Samuel S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Samuel S., who was born in Sni︠a︡tyn, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna the following year; antisemitic harassment in school; Austrians warmly welcoming German occupation in 1938; attending Jewish school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest (he was in Dachau for four months, then Buchenwald for four months); his release upon promising to emigrate; obtaining documents in 1939 for three to emigrate to Palestine; his father, mother, and younger sister emigrating there; his emigration to Belfast with assistance from an Irish woman, a friend of a friend; living on a farm in County Dublin supported by local Jews; attending university in Belfast, then Edinburgh; avoiding incarceration as an enemy alien; emigration to the United States after the war to attend graduate school at Yale; and his career as a city planner. Mr. S. notes how lucky he was; his parents' and sister's return to Vienna to live after the war; and circulating a newsletter to his Viennese Jewish schoolmates. He shows photographs and documents.

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