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David S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-834) interviewed by Larry Schoenfeld and Phyllis Braverman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-834

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1914, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his family's affluence; draft into the Polish military; capture by Germans in Tarnowskie Góry; incarceration in Stalag VIII A Görlitz for six months; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his family (he never saw any of them again); transfer to Lagisza; return to Auschwitz; hospitalization; working in the Union Kommando; the death march to Gross-Rosen; escaping from a train transport in Sudetenland; stealing civilian clothes; a woman recognizing him as a Jew and assisting him to look better; posing as a Polish forced laborer; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Zawiercie, seeking relatives but not finding anyone; traveling to Sosnowiec, Prague, then Munich; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. S. notes that, when he thinks about his experiences, he has difficulty believing they happened.
    Author/Creator
    S., David, 1914-
    Published
    San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1987
    Interview Date
    January 18, 1987.
    Locale
    Poland
    Germany
    Zawiercie
    Zawiercie (Poland)
    Tarnowskie Góry (Poland)
    Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
    Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Munich (Germany)
    Cite As
    David S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-834). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Schoenfeld, Larry, interviewer.
    Braverman, Phyllis, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 19 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282595
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
    This page:
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