Max S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1782) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,

Videotape testimony of Max S., who was born in Iŭe, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recalls working as a carpenter for the Soviets in 1939; visiting an aunt in Baranvichy in 1941; German invasion; hiding in an attic during a mass killing in Iŭe; transfer to the Lida ghetto in December; forced labor as a carpenter; a Jew reporting him for leaving the ghetto; interception by a German; escaping back to the ghetto; fleeing to the woods with four others; joining a partisan unit of Jews and Russians; blowing up German trains; learning his family was killed; living in Łódź, Berlin, and a refugee camp in Munich after the war; emigration to the United States in June 1947; and marriage in 1948. Mr. S. notes feelings of revenge when blowing up German trains, and sharing his experiences with his son.