- Summary
- 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.
- Author/Creator
- B., Sam, 1917-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- May 15 and May 22, 1990.
- Locale
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
Vel̕ké Raškovce (Slovakia)
Austria
Brno (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Budapest (Hungary)
Munich (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Cite As
- Sam B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1580). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Die unvergesslichen sechseinhalb Jahre meines Lebens, 1939-1945 / Sam Berger. -- Frankfurt (Main) : R.G. Fischer, c1985.
