- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Solomon H., who was born in Wieluń, Poland in 1913. He recounts the deaths of his father and brother; a sister and brother emigrating to France; marriage in 1938; German invasion; fleeing; being shot; transfer to Tomaszów Mazowiecki, then Łódź; reunion with his wife; returning home; ghettoization; having his wife smuggled to the Częstochowa ghetto when she became pregnant (their son did not survive long); escaping to join her during the ghetto's liquidation; assignment to HASAG-Pelzery; a privileged position as a foreman; arrival of Jews from Łódź; communicating with his sister in Łódź to volunteer for the next group (she did and was sent to a death camp); remediating a factory production problem; escaping with his wife in January 1945; hiding with a Polish woman; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Wieluń; establishing a business under the Soviets using false papers as a non-Jew; escaping when his arrest was imminent; living in Munich and Bad Wörishofen; his daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. H. discusses testifying at the Frankfurt war crime trials; refusing to testify against the German who had saved him and his wife; and blaming himself for his sister's death.
- Author/Creator
- H., Solomon, 1913-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991
- Interview Date
- March 26, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Wielún (Sieradz)
Częstochowa
Germany
Frankfurt am Main
Wieluń (Łódź, Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Bad Wörishofen (Germany)
- Cite As
- Solomon H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2883). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
