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Samuel M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4472) interviewed by Kathy Strochlic and Pam Goodman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4472

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    Videotape testimony of Samuel M., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania (presently Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine) in 1930, the younger of two children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school from age six; antisemitic harassment en route to school; beginning violin lessons; Soviet occupation; studying violin at the conservatory; his father not allowing him to be sent to study in Moscow; German invasion in 1941; murders and rapes of Jews; ghettoization; his father refusing when his German friend offered to help them escape and hide them; deportation with his family in cattle cars to Mărculești; placement in homes of previously murdered Jews; a death march with his family to Obodivka, then Verkhovka; placement with many others in small houses; his father's death from typhus; resolving to fight for his life; sneaking to nearby fields at night to obtain food; some peasants giving him food; hearing in 1944 that children were being saved; walking with his mother and sister to Balta; separation from their mother; hiding; liberation by Soviet troops; a cousin, who was a Soviet soldier, visiting them; reunion with their mother in spring 1944; their return to Czernowitz; moving back into their apartment; about a year later, traveling to Lublin then Łódź; antisemitic harrassment; traveling to Prague; leaving after a few days; living in Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; attending high school; his sister's marriage; obtaining a violin and taking lessons; joining his father's brother in New York when he was nineteen; obtaining a scholarship to music school; and his career as a professional violinist. Mr. M. discusses encountering the friend who offered to hide them after the war; regrets that he did not see his father's grave or see his father's German friend again; and writing a book about his experiences.
    Author/Creator
    M., Samuel, 1930-
    Published
    Bronx, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2014
    Interview Date
    November 11, 2014.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Chernivt︠s︡i.
    Romania
    Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
    Mărculești (Moldova)
    Obodivka (Ukraine)
    Verkhovka (Ukraine)
    Balta (Ukraine)
    Lublin (Poland)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Samuel M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4472). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
    Notes
    Related publications: Devils Among Angels: A Journey From Paradise And Hell To Life / Samuel Marder. -- San Diego : IDW Publishing, c2013.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    1 copy: Digital file.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 50 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Soviet occupation.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.
    Antisemitism Postwar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12511573
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 12:03:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt12511573

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