Izzi S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2950) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Videotape testimony of Izzi S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; working as a tailor with his brothers; German occupation; working at a munitions factory; his father's death from starvation in May 1942; deportation with his brother; their escape from the train; returning to the ghetto; his brother's death from starvation in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother upon their arrival; transfer to Gleiwitz with his older brother; working as a nurse in the infirmary with assistance from two Jewish prisoner-doctors; sharing extra food with his brother and cousin; their transfer to Blechhammer in January 1945; kinder treatment from one German officer; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. recounts walking to Częstochowa; traveling to Łódź; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp, then Paris; emigrating to Palestine in 1947; returning to Paris in 1949; and emigrating to the United States in 1950. He discusses the importance of luck to his survival.