Salo F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2966) interviewed by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer,

Videotape testimony of Salo F., who was born in Poland in 1919. He recalls attending a yeshiva; German invasion; ghettoization; public hangings to discourage escapes; arrest following a failed escape (he never saw his parents or siblings again); incarceration in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg; a beating which resulted in permanent back injuries; transfer to Dachau; liberation two days later; living in Munich; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; marriage to an Auschwitz survivor; living in Bayreuth; his son's birth in 1947; his strong desire to leave Germany; and emigrating to Bolivia in 1953. Mr. F. notes it is too painful for him to discuss the camps; frequent nightmares; and the exposure of Klaus Barbie, whom he saw a number of times