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Amalie S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1178) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Ruth Harris,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1178

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Amalie S., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1922, one of three daughters. She recounts her family moving to Stanislav after Hitler's ascent to power; attending a Jewish gymnasium; summer visits to grandparents in Dilyatyn; her sister's emigration to Palestine; Soviet occupation; Hungarian invasion followed by German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and release; hiding her father during a round-up; a mass killing including her mother and sister; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's job at the Judenrat; public hanging of every tenth Jewish policeman and the head of the Judenrat, Mordecai Goldstein; her father's deportation; escaping to Galich with the help of a non-Jew; hiding with several non-Jewish families; obtaining false papers; living in Lʹviv; traveling to Kraków via Stryĭ; living with Kazimiera J.; working as a maid for a German family, then for a German construction company; attending a party hosted by Hans Frank; attempting to give water to Jews in cattle cars; working as a bookkeeper for Organization Todt, then another German firm; remaining as a manager when the company was evacuated; a German commander ordering her to detonate explosives but not complying; contacting the Polish underground; liberation; meeting her future husband (he was in the Polish army); and emigration to the United States in 1947. Ms. S. notes visiting Poland with her daughter in 1974; sending money to one of her rescuers; and bringing Kazimiera J. to the United States, who joins her, as does Amalie S.'s husband, Norman S. (HVT-1055), and one of his rescuers, Stanislawa B.
    Author/Creator
    S., Amalie, 1922-
    Published
    Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
    Interview Date
    April 24, 1987 and October 27, 1987.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Stanislav
    Poland
    Germany
    Munich (Germany)
    Stanislav (Ukraine)
    Deli︠a︡tyn (Ukraine)
    Galich (Ukraine)
    Lʹviv (Ukraine)
    Stryĭ (Ukraine)
    Kraków (Poland)
    Cite As
    Amalie S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1178). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
    Notes
    Related publication: Against all odds : a tale of two survivors / Norman Salsitz and Amalie Petranker Salsitz. -- New York : Holocaust Library, c1990.
    Related material: Norman S. Holocaust testimony [husband](HVT-1055), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    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
    2 videorecordings (1 hr., 58 min. and 1 hr., 29 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Soviet occupation.
    Hungarian occupation.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Mass killings.
    False papers.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294827
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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