- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yehuda S., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1912, one of three children. He recounts his family's forced relocation by Russia to Vitsebsk during World War I; returning in 1920; vacations in Palanga; his siblings' emigration to South Africa; working in his father's leather business; his death in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; fleeing east with his mother; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his mother's deportation with other relatives (he never saw them again); he and his future wife hiding with Lithuanian non-Jews for four months; their exposure; imprisonment in Seda, then Šiauliai; their release after his girlfriend's mother bribed the guards; returning to the ghetto; marriage; public executions; working in a factory; trading with Lithuanians for food; deportation to Stutthof; separation from his wife; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops from a forced march; recuperating in Waldkirchen and Sankt Ottilien; traveling illegally to Modena with the assistance of Beriḥah; hearing from his brother in South Africa; learning his wife was alive; returning to Sankt Ottilien to get her; difficulties smuggling back to Italy (she had lost her fingers and toes from gangrene); emigration to Rhodesia; the birth of two children; and emigration to England. Mr. S. discusses many prisoners who helped him and others, and his paintings of survivors and his experiences. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- S., Yehuda, 1912-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- January 20, 1993.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Šiauliai
Russia
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
Vitsebsk (Belarus)
Palanga (Lithuania)
Seda (Lithuania)
Waldkirchen (Germany)
Modena (Italy)
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Cite As
- Yehuda S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2127). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Douek, Gillian Green, interviewer.
