Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Richard S., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. He recalls moving to Brussels in 1928; participating in socialist groups; repatriation to Béziers, France in 1940; returning to Brussels; registering as a Jew in 1941; support from socialist friends; his sister hiding with a Belgian family; destroying orders for the family to report to Malines; returning to Béziers in 1942; his parents' deportation from Brussels shortly thereafter; working as a resistance courier; a brief association with the Maquis; arrest and brutal interrogations in 1944; and transfer to Compiègne, Paris, Drancy, and Auschwitz. Mr. S. recounts assignment to Monowitz; learning of his parents' deaths; contact with Allied prisoners of war; resistance activities; sharing food with his small group; watching religious Jews pray; the death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; surgery for a leg infection; the underground liberating the camp in April 1945 shortly before United States troops arrived; hospitalization in Kaiserlautern, Metz, and Brussels for over a year; and reunion with his sister. Mr. S. discusses his state of mind and relations between ethnic groups in the camps; dealing with traumatic memories; his sense that survivors are "different;" and discussing his experiences with his children.
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992
- Interview Date
- April 2, 1992.
- Locale
- Belgium
France
Poland
Paris (France)
Brussels (Belgium)
Béziers (France)
Kaiserlautern (Germany)
Metz (France) - Cite As
- Richard S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1974). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (3 hr., 20 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Resistance.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Concentration camps Underground movements.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Forced labor. Socialism--Belgium. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war--Poland. Concentration camp inmates--Religious. France. Paris (France) Brussels (Belgium) Béziers (France) Oral histories (document genres) Kaiserlautern (Germany) Metz (France) Death marches. S., Richard,--1925- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Compiègne (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1097614
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:24:00
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