- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Saul F., a distinguished professor of political science who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He recalls emigration to Paris in 1939, then to central France; his parents placing him in a Catholic monastery; their capture and deportation to Auschwitz; several people hiding his identity during Nazi searches; becoming an ardent Catholic; and discovery by relatives in 1946. He recounts living in boarding school in Paris; a Zionist summer camp; emigrating to Israel with Youth Aliyah in 1948; army service; studying in Paris, Geneva, and at Harvard; marriage in 1959; and working for Nahum Goldman at the World Jewish Congress and Shimon Peres at the Israeli Defense Ministry. Professor F. reflects on his effort to resolve his religious identity, including a memory of his father telling him about Hanukkah in 1941; studying European Jewish history and Martin Buber; visiting a monk who had saved him; and the personal crisis that led to writing his autobiography. He discusses other topics including a conversation with Martin Buber; his impression of Israeli intellectuals' response to the occupation of the West Bank; trends in Holocaust studies; and his children's response to his experience.
- Author/Creator
- F., Saul, 1932-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- November 14, 1991.
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Prague (Czech Republic)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Saul F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1679). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hartman, Geoffrey H., interviewer.
Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: A conflict of memories? : the new German debates about the "Final solution" / by Saul Friedländer. -- New York : Leo Baeck Institute, 1987.
Related publication: History and psychoanalysis : an inquiry into the possibilities and limits of psychohistory / by Saul Friedländer ; translated by Susan Suleiman. -- New York : Holmes & Meier, 1978.
Related publication : Kurt Gerstein, the ambiguity of good / by Saul Friedländer : translated from the French and German by Charles Fullman. -- American ed. -- New York : Knopf, 1969.
Related publication : Pius XII and the Third Reich : a documentation / by Saul Friedländer : translated from the French and German by Charles Fullman. -- 1st American ed. -- New York : Knopf, 1966.
Related publication: When memory comes / Saul Friedländer ; translated from the French by Helen R. Lane. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1979, c1978.
