Chaim S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1636) interviewed by Laure Gutman and Anita Auerhan,
Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in Łomża, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a spy; working on a collective farm near Kuībyshev (now Samara); and being drafted. Mr. S. recounts traveling to Guzar to join the Polish army; his rejection due to antisemitism; working in Kzyl-Orda; becoming a Soviet citizen; and being arrested.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
- Interview Date
- April 1, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Łomża (Poland)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Smolensk (Russia)
Guzar (Uzbekistan)
Qyzylorda (Kazakhstan)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Samara (Russia) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Chaim S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1636). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1089254
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