Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in a Polish village and raised in Gorlice. He recalls a large and close extended family; working for a wholesale food business; learning English, anticipating emigration to join relatives in the United States; German invasion; forced labor; ghettoization; starvation; non-Jewish farmers bringing them food; selection with his brother for deportation to Płaszów; slave labor for Siemens; hospitalization for typhus; working as a nurse; sharing extra food with others; working for Krupp; separation from his brother (he never saw him again); transfer to Skarżysko; receiving extra food from Polish civilian workers; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Częstochowa; public hanging of escapees; transfer to Buchenwald, Schlieben, and Allach; assisting prisoners trying to observe Passover; liberation from an evacuation train by United States troops; living in Miesbach, then Feldafing displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; marriage in February 1946; and emigration to the United States in May 1947. Mr. E. discusses emotional numbness in the camps; surviving due to luck; the impact of extreme hunger; and difficulty describing his experience in words.
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
- Interview Date
- May 28 and July 16, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Gorlice
Gorlice (Poland)
Miesbach (Germany) - Cite As
- Sol E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1057). 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
- 2 videorecordings (1 hr., 58 min., and 58 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Hospitals in concentration camps. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Gorlice. Forced labor. Brothers. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Refugee camps. Gorlice (Poland) Poland. Miesbach (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Sol,--1922- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Siemens Aktiengesellschaft. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Schlieben (Concentration camp) Fried. Krupp AG. Feldafing (Displaced persons 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/4294793
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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