Sam B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1580) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman and Toby Blum-Dobkin

Videotape testimony of Sam B., who was born in Vel̕ké Raškovce, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls attending the Jewish gymnasium in Brno; training for illegal emigration to Palestine; a local official who offered to hide his sisters when deportation orders arrived; their refusal, wanting to stay with the family; his deportation to Theresienstadt in spring 1942; sharing food with his sister; transfer to Auschwitz in fall 1944; receiving extra food from his sister; transfer to Kaufering; slave labor; escaping from an evacuation train with others; receiving food and assistance from local Germans; liberation by United States troops; interpreting for the Americans; leaving for home two months later; traveling to Bratislava; learning a brother had survived; traveling to Prague, then Budapest; reunion with his brother and two sisters (seven of the eight siblings survived); traveling illegally with survivor groups to Munich; briefly staying in Landsberg displaced persons camp; traveling to Frankfurt; reunion with his girlfriend; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States in 1955. Mr. B. discusses his book and shows photographs, documents, and memorabilia.