Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1929. He recalls their poverty; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to his family; lying about his age to obtain a job in a glass factory; deportation of his parents and sister (he never saw them again); a man exempted from deportation choosing to stay with his baby (an image that he still sees today); mass shootings in nearby woods; deportation to Częstochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then Rehmsdorf; friendship with one boy with whom he shared extra rations obtained from a prisoner who died in front of him; a death march to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; being chosen to go to England; living in a group home in Windermere; a wonderful psychiatrist who helped them adjust to normal life; transfer to a hostel near London; apprenticeship as a tailor; marriage; raising a family; his successful business; and sharing his story with his children. Mr. S. discusses being the sole family survivor, and details of ghetto and camp life.
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
- Interview Date
- November 30, 1990.
- Locale
- Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Poland
Windermere (England) - Cite As
- Harry S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2359). 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 (2 hr., 16 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Mass killings.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Antisemitism Prewar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Friendship. Death marches. Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) Poland. Windermere (England) Oral histories (document genres) S., Harry,--1929- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296718
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296718
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