Overview
- 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.
- 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. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jewish councils. Jews--Poland--Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie) World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Brothers. Death marches. Concentration camp inmates--Escapes. Poland. Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. S., Maurice,--1919- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Blizyn (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (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/1108231
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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