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Ernest S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1549) interviewed by Larry Steinfeld and Lidya Osadchey,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1549

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Gherla, Romania in 1925, the youngest of five children. He recounts his family moving to Cluj in 1932; one brother's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; working on the family dairy farm; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his parents and two siblings to Auschwitz; separation from his family upon arrival (he never saw them again); assignment to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager), then transfer to another barrack; learning of the gas chambers; transfer two weeks later to Hirschberg; slave labor in Phrix Werke and Askania Werke factories; a German soldier giving him extra food; clandestinely praying with other prisoners on Rosh ha-Shanah; a kapo pretending to beat him in order to protect him from a real beating; praying in gratitude; a severe beating resulting in a permanent disability; a death march; others helping him because he was barefoot; train transfer to Buchenwald; prisoners killing a brutal kapo from Hirschberg; hospitalization; liberation; assistance from the Red Cross; traveling to Italy, intending to join his brother in Palestine; learning another brother was in Gherla; and joining him there until emigrating in 1950. Mr. S. discusses relationships between national groups of camp prisoners and the prisoner hierarchy; and visiting his grandparents' graves in Romania in 1975 and Buchenwald in 1989. He shows documents and photographs.
    Author/Creator
    S., Ernest, 1925-
    Published
    Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1990
    Interview Date
    November 23, 1990.
    Locale
    Romania
    Cluj-Napoca
    Gherla (Romania)
    Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
    Italy
    Cite As
    Ernest S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1549). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Osadchey, Lidya, interviewer.
    Steinfeld, Larry, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (3 hr., 53 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar effects.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283968
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:53:00
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