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Saul C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2077) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2077

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Saul C., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1925. He recalls his family's relative poverty; attending Bund summer camps; German occupation; the family's move to Częstochowa; forced labor in the ghetto; transformation of the ghetto into labor camps (his mother, sister, and one brother were deported to Treblinka); hiding during a round-up; capture and escape; rejoining his father in the camp; separation from his father; escaping with a friend; building a bunker in a forest; hostile Polish partisans (AK); returning to camp because he feared death; denunciation; imprisonment; Gestapo interrogation; forced labor; transfer to Buchenwald; reunion with his father; transfer to Stassfurt; a death march in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops in Annaberg; hospitalization; returning to Kraków (none of his family had survived); traveling to Prague; living in displaced persons camps in Linz and Bindermichl; working for UNRRA; emigration to the United States in 1949 to join family; and marriage. Mr. C. discusses the inability of non-survivors to understand his experiences; losing belief in God due to what he went through; his American relatives' unwillingness to hear what happened ; and resentment that they did little to help his family leave prewar Poland.
    Author/Creator
    C., Saul, 1925-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
    Interview Date
    November 18, 1991.
    Locale
    Poland
    Częstochowa
    Kraków (Poland)
    Częstochowa (Poland)
    Annaberg-Buchholz (Germany)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Saul C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2077). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Schiff, Gabriele, 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., 46 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Hiding.
    Partisans.
    Forests.
    Bunkers.
    Mutual aid.
    Refugee camps.
    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--Częstochowa. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons , Polish. Forced labor. Faith. Fathers and sons. Death marches. Kraków (Poland) Poland. Częstochowa (Poland) Annaberg-Buchholz (Germany) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) C., Saul,--1925- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Neu-Stassfurt (Concentration camp) Poland.--Polskie Siły Zbrojne.--Armia Krajowa.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286330
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
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