Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in approximately 1913. He recounts his father's death in 1925; working with his mother; pervasive antisemitism; deportation to Dachau; forced labor; observing Jewish holidays; transfer to Buchenwald six months later; release due to his future wife obtaining a ticket for Shanghai; selling his ticket because he would not leave his future wife; marriage; emigration to Milan; leaving for Palestine from Sicily; arrival in Banghāzī; incarceration under Italian occupation; being returned to Italy; imprisonment in Naples; transfer to Ferramonti; benign conditions; release; moving to Cortona; his son's birth; reporting twice daily to the police for three years; German invasion; liberation by the Jewish Brigade of the British Army; living in a refugee camp at the Cinecittà movie studio; learning of family deaths from the Red Cross; receiving assistance from clerics in Vatican City; their second child's birth, illness, and death; working in an UNRRA camp; emigration to Bolivia; living in Sucre and La Paz; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. S. discusses his guilt for having left his mother (she did not survive) and writing about his experiences for his son.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- July 23, 1984.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Milan (Italy)
Sicily (Italy)
Banghāzī (Libya)
Cortona (Italy)
Vatican City
Sucre (Bolivia)
La Paz (Bolivia) - Cite As
- Alfred S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-354). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 43 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Italian occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Husband and wife. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian. Refugee camps. Austria. Vienna (Austria) Milan (Italy) Sicily (Italy) Banghāzī (Libya) Cortona (Italy) Vatican City. Sucre (Bolivia) La Paz (Bolivia) Oral histories (document genres) S., Alfred,--1913?- Dachau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Ferramonti (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Cinecittà, s.p.a.
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/4293632
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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