- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Bernard S., who was born in Sofiïvka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of six children. He recalls Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; a mass killing including his father; stealing food for his family; fleeing with others when they saw trucks entering the village; learning there had been a mass killing including his family; hiding in the forest; receiving food from his former Polish employer; returning to his town after a month; escaping to the forest with a woman and her children; building a bunker; moving often; obtaining food from Polish farmers and a woman who was hiding a Jewish child; killings by Ukrainians; fleeing to a swamp; living for six months on a platfrom; contact with partisans; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; traveling to Kharkiv, Kiev, then Poland; living in a children's home; leaving with other children for Kraków; preparing for emigration to Israel; being smuggled to Prague, then to Leipheim, Germany; hearing from his uncle in the United States; and emigrating to join him in April 1947. Mr. S. notes seldom discussing his experiences with his children and difficulty conveying everything he lived through despite vivid memories.
- Author/Creator
- S., Bernard, 1928-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1990
- Interview Date
- June 28, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Sofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Poland
Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Leipheim (Germany)
- Cite As
- Bernard S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3237). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
