- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abe S., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's poverty; their inability to feed him; working in a meatpacking house beginning at age twelve; German invasion; forced labor in several villages from August 1940 to September 1941; transfer to a weaving factory; sharing extra food with an older man; meeting his future wife (his second cousin); transfer to another camp in 1942; slave labor cutting down trees; a death march to Buchenwald in 1944; veteran prisoners asking him and others to kill two "green triangles" (criminals); receiving extra food for doing so; liberation by United States troops; learning his cousin (his future wife) was in Belsen; traveling there; reunion with his brother; their return home seeking surviving relatives (there were none); traveling to Łódź; marriage; living in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; his son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1948; and building his business. Mr. S. notes his pride in being American.
- Author/Creator
- S., Abe, 1922-
- Published
- Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994
- Interview Date
- August 1, 1994.
- Locale
- Będzin (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- Abe S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2748). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rosenthal, Debra L., interviewer.
Donovan, Fred, interviewer.
- Notes
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Audio quality of the first fifty minutes of this testimony is defective.
Related material: Sam S. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2464), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Chana S. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2620), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
