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Maurice S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-551)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-551

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1919 and raised in Szydłowiec. He recounts his father's kosher butcher shop; German invasion; the Judenrat supplying forced laborers; escaping with friends from a labor camp in 1940; escaping from the Radom ghetto in 1941 using Polish papers; separation from his parents during the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; forced labor with his brothers sorting ghetto rubble and digging graves; hiding in the woods with his brothers with assistance from a Polish farmer; smuggling themselves into Wolanów with assistance from a Polish acquaintance; mass killings, including one brother; transfer to Bliżyn in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944; working in a coal mine; the death march to Gleiwitz on January 18, 1945; transfer to Dernau from a train that was bombed; and liberation by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. Mr. S. recalls hospital recuperation; returning to Poland; marriage in a displaced persons camp in Germany; assistance from UNRRA; the birth of his two children; and emigration to the United States in 1951.
    Author/Creator
    S., Maurice, 1919-
    Published
    Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1983
    Interview Date
    October 2, 1983.
    Locale
    Poland
    Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
    Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
    Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
    Cite As
    Maurice S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-551). 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., 19 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    False papers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Forests.
    Mass killings.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1108231
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
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