Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Roman S., who was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls participating in sports events sponsored by Maccabi; a strong sense of Jewish community; German invasion; forced transfer to the Łódź ghetto in early 1940; deportation to Schwiebus in December; forced labor doing highway construction; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, Fuerstenberg, then Auschwitz in May 1943; his assignment to undress corpses; transfer to I. G. Farben at Buna/Monowitz; assistance from British POWs; transfer to a Farben factory near Kraków; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; brief stays in Mauthausen and Buchenwald; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in February; digging mass graves; being shot by the Kommandant, Josef Kramer; medical assistance from a German doctor; and liberation by British troops. Mr. S. discusses recovering in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; testifying against Kramer and in favor of the physician who helped him at a trial in Lüneburg; meeting General Bernard Montgomery; marriage in 1946; speaking to Marlene Dietrich concerning his wish to emigrate; and emigration with his wife and daughter to the United States in 1949.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- July 10, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Germany
Lüneburg
Lüneburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Roman S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2028). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 30 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Prisoners of war--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. War crime trials--Germany--Lüneburg. Poland. Oral histories (document genres) Lüneburg (Germany) Refugee camps. S., Roman,--1922- Kramer, Josef,--1906-1945. Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery,--Viscount,--1887-1976. Dietrich, Marlene. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286028
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4286028
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