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Sam F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1719) interviewed by Devorah Mann,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1719

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    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.
    Author/Creator
    F., Sam, 1912-
    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.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Mann, Devorah, interviewer.

    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.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295997
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
    This page:
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