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Jack S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1421) interviewed by Sandy Hoffman and Pnina Goldfarb,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1421

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recalls their poverty; his father's death before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation of his mother and siblings; his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; observing suicides; transfer three weeks later to Dachau; receiving food from Germans while working outside the camp; liberation by United States troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States in 1950; marriage to an American; and the births of two daughters. Mr. S. discusses living from day to day in the camps; the cruelty of Jewish kapos, although not all were bad; emotional distress upon realizing none of his family had survived; and learning to "feel like a human being again" after the war. He shows photographs.
Author/Creator: S., Jack, 1924-
Published: Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1989
Interview Date: December 28, 1989.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Jack S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1421). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Hoffman, Sanford, interviewer.
Goldfarb, Pnina, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (43 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) S., Jack,--1924- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (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/4283793
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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