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Israel S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-549) interviewed by Gitta Fajerstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-549

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Israel S., who was born in Munkács, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls his religious family and happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; escaping deportation to Poland; German invasion in 1944; evacuation with his family to a brick factory; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz (he never saw his mother again); two weeks in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in a coal mine in Melk; a prisoner saving him during an accident (he was seriously injured); assistance from a German officer; transfer by train and a death march to Ebensee; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. S. describes emigration to the United States in 1948; marriage in 1957; and his family of seven children. He discusses his total depression in Auschwitz; beginning to struggle to survive in Melk; and the importance of his group of friends to his survival.
Author/Creator: S., Israel, 1929-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1983
Interview Date: September 18, 1983.
Locale: Czechoslovakia
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Cite As: Israel S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-549). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
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. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Fathers and sons. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Friendship. Death marches. Czechoslovakia. Mukacheve (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) S., Israel,--1929- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/1108230
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
This page:: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1108230

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