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Joe S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1200) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1200

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Joe S., who was born in Pidhaīt︠s︡i, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1922 to a family of eight children. He recalls his father's military service in World War I; attending school until age fourteen; good relations with non-Jews; German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat supplying men for forced labor; forced labor in Lavrykovtse for nine months; highway work; learning his parents and two sisters had been killed; the brutal murder of an escaped prisoner in Zborow; escaping to the partisans from a labor camp; hiding in bunkers and the forest for two years; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. describes returning to Pidhaīt︠s︡i; learning no family members had survived; moving to L'viv a year later; marriage in Kraków; living in the Bad Reichenhall displaced person camp; transfer by UNRRA to Funk Kaserne in Munich; and emigrating from Hamburg to the United States.
Author/Creator: S., Joe, 1922-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
Interview Date: May 7, 1989.
Locale: Poland
Pidhaĭt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Lavrykovtse (Ukraine)
Zboriv (Ukraine)
L'viv (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Joe S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1200). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (59 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Forests.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish councils. Poland. Pidhaĭt︠s︡i (Ukraine) Lavrykovtse (Ukraine) Zboriv (Ukraine) L'viv (Ukraine) Kraków (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. S., Joe,--1922- Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons 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/1108225
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:24:00
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