LEADER 04247cpd a2200565 a 4500001 1084878 005 20180604132816.0 008 950119s1989 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702214068 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV95-A2 035 1084878 035 HVT-1356 035 |9AHD1210YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702123982 090 |bHVT-1356 100 1 S., Simon, |d1922- 245 10 Simon S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1356) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Dorothy G. Siegel and Lucy Samorodin, |fDecember 6, 1989. 260 Baltimore, Md. : |bBaltimore Jewish Council, |c1989. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Simon S., who was born in Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; an apprenticeship at age fourteen; the outbreak of war; public hanging of the Jewish leaders; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor for eighteen months in Leszno; the hanging of two friends who had asked local Poles for food; transport to Birkenau in 1943; a severe beating; transfer to Jaworzno; forced labor in coal mines; receiving extra food for playing on the prisoner soccer team; and prisoners singing the Czech national anthem while awaiting hanging after an escape attempt. Mr. S. recounts the death march to Blechhammer in January 1945; hiding to avoid another march; aid from Italians in a nearby prisoner of war camp; arrival of Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been killed in Chełmno and his brother was alive in Germany; leaving for Germany in October 1945; reunion with his brother and two cousins; living in Freilassing; and emigration to the United States in 1949 with his brother's family. He discusses testifying at war crime trials in Germany in 1980 and 1989. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Simon S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1356). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 S., Simon, |d1922- 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 War crime trials |zGermany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91002408 650 0 Passive resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098528 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 610 20 Jaworzno (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068601 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99006567 651 0 Freilassing (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81062636 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Postwar experiences. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 691 4 Leszno (Poland : Concentration camp) 700 1 Siegel, Dorothy G., |einterviewer. 700 1 Samorodin, Lucy, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b1214596 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1356) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/639k35md3t 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/