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Stephen J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2915) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2915

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Stephen J., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1939. He recounts his family's move to Piotrków Trybunalski after German occupation; ghettoization; his father's privileged position as a physician; living in a hospital compound; deportation to a labor camp with his parents, brother, and uncles and aunts; transfer to Buchenwald with his father and brother (his mother was sent to Bergen-Belsen); being hidden in the shoemaker's shop with assistance from a German prisoner-physician, then in the tuberculosis barrack; seeing shootings and wagons full of corpses; the prisoner uprising; liberation by United States troops; reunion with his mother; living in displaced persons camps in Switzerland; attending school; and emigrating to the United States. Mr. J. discusses his family's reluctance to discuss the war years; the importance to their survival of his father's profession and help from many prisoners; his father's successful efforts in saving many others; and regrets that his parents' stories were not recorded. He shows photographs.
Author/Creator: J., Stephen, 1939-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
Interview Date: 1994.
Locale: Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Łódź (Poland)
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Switzerland
Cite As: Stephen J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2915). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Blinderman, Joni-Sue, 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., 25 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
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--Piotrków Trybunalski. Mothers and sons. Fathers and sons. Refugee camps. Brothers. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) Switzerland. Oral histories (document genres) J., Stephen,--1939- Buchenwald (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/4289255
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:40:00
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