Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1912, one of six children. He recounts the family's move to Gusakov after World War I; his father's death after a beating by antisemitic Ukrainians; attending Polish school; learning tailoring at age thirteen; working in Przemyśl from age fifteen onward in the Polish military; German invasion; a mass killing of 500 men in Przemyśl; Soviet occupation days later; German invasion; fleeing to the village of a Ukrainian, non-Jewish tailor whom he had helped before; working for him while posing as a non-Jew; hearing his family had been ghettoized in and deported from Przemyśl (no one survived); liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; serving in the Soviet military; returning to Przemyśl; hearing of a pogrom; fleeing to the American occupied zone; living in displaced persons camps in Kassel and Bindermichl; organizing tailor shops there; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; and emigration to the United States in May 1948. Mr. F. notes he married a woman who had left Gusakov in 1939, weeks before German invasion.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- November 19, 1990.
- Locale
- Germany
Kassel (Germany)
Gusakov (Ukraine)
Przemyśl (Poland) - Cite As
- Sam F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1719). 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
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 26 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Particapation, Soviet. Refugee camps. Germany. Kassel (Germany) Gusakov (Ukraine) Przemyśl (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) F., Sam,--1912- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295997
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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