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David S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-515) interviewed by Allen Binstock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-515

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1922, one of five children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public and Jewish schools; participating in Akiva; apprenticing as a painter; Soviet occupation in 1939; his stepbrother's deportation to Siberia (he survived); his older brother's draft into the Soviet military; German invasion in June 1941; a pogrom by Ukrainians; antisemitic restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor as a painter; deportation of his mother, father and youngest brother; receiving a letter from his father; his sister's deportation; transfer to Boryslav labor camp; deportation to Płaszów; slave labor; narrowly escaping execution; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk, three weeks later; slave labor digging tunnels; evacuation to Ebensee in April 1945; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. S. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences and continuing to hope that his brother survived in the Soviet army.
Author/Creator: S., David, 1922?-
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1985
Interview Date: January 30, 1985.
Locale: Ukraine
Boryslav
Poland
Boryslav (Ukraine)
Cite As: David S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-515). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Binstock, Allen, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 37 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Zionist organizations.
Soviet occupation.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Ukraine--Boryslav. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Nightmares. Poland. Boryslav (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) S., David,--1922?- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/4293917
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4293917

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