Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Solomon M., who was born in Jędrzejów, Poland in 1916. He recalls the family farm; attending Polish school and cheder; serving in the Polish army from 1937 onward; German invasion; three months as a prisoner of war; returning home; finding the town ghettoized; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; six months of railroad work at Sędziszów; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; eighteen months in werke C; clandestinely receiving food from non-Jewish workers; transfer to Częstochowa in late 1943, then to Buchenwald in mid-1944; clearing corpses from the barracks every morning; a death march during which ninety percent perished; receiving sugar from a friend which helped him go on; and liberation near Ainring at the end of 1944. Mr. M. describes working in the Ainring displaced persons camp kitchen for two years; learning his sister survived and was living in Israel; emigration to the United States in 1950; assistance received from HIAS; and learning the Jews from his town has been deported to Treblinka.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 25, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie)
Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland) - Cite As
- Solomon M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1486). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation--Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation--Jewish. Prisoners of war--Poland. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie) Forced labor. Poland. Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. Refugee camps. M., Solomon,--1916- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1089246
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1089246
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