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Marc S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1452) interviewed by Zelda Kaplan and Evelyn Umlas,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1452

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Marc S., who was born in 1922 in Kielce, Poland. He recalls antisemitic incidents in his childhood; participating in Zionist activities; his grandmother and older brother emigrating to the United States; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; burying his father who was killed as a hostage; ghettoization; smuggling food which kept him from starving to death; his family's deportation in a round-up; hiding three children his brigade found; disbelief when a returned deportee reported gassing at Treblinka; deportation in 1944 to Auschwitz, then Birkenau; improved conditions at I.G. Farben's Buna Monowitz plant; receiving extra food from a non-Jewish block leader; the death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Dora/Nordhausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. He recounts living in Hannover and a displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1946.
Author/Creator: S., Marc, 1922-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1990
Interview Date: November 19, 1990.
Locale: Poland
Kielce
Kielce (Poland)
Hannover (Germany)
Cite As: Marc S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1452). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kaplan, Zelda, interviewer.
Umlas, Evelyn, interviewer.

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., 31 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Zionist activities.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kielce. Forced labor. Poland. Kielce (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Hannover (Germany) Refugee camps. Death marches. S., Marc,--1922- Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Nordhausen (Concentration camp) Monowitz (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/1094392
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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