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Jack S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-723) interviewed by Esther Cronson and Heidi Hample,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-723

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1915, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; German invasion; "Bloody Monday" following the invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation to Ciechanów in 1941; slave labor digging trenches; escaping with two friends; hiding in a forest; returning home; hiding briefly in 1943; his sister being shot trying to join him; his parents' and sisters' deportation; slave labor with his brothers at the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops; marriage to a survivor; traveling with his wife and brothers to Frankfurt; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences; sharing his experiences with his children; and his wife's recent death.
Author/Creator: S., Jack, 1915-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
Interview Date: December 14, 1985.
Locale: Poland
Częstochowa
Lublin (Poland)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Cite As: Jack S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-723). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Cronson, Esther, interviewer.
Hample Heidi, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Forests.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Częstochowa. Forced labor. Escapes. Brothers. Nightmares. Poland. Oral histories (document genres) Lublin (Poland) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) S., Jack,--1915- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. Częstochowa (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/4294208
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294208

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