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a| Shmuel S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3320)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Anita Tarsi and Roni Stauber,
f| December 26, 1991.
a| Tel Aviv, Israel :
b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
c| 1991.
a| 1 videorecording (2 hr., 12 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Shmuel S., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1920. He recounts moving to Palestine with his family; living in Rishon le-Tsiyon, Petaḥ Tiḳṿah and Hebron; returning to Kaunas in 1929; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a massacre of Jews prior to the arrival of the Germans; fleeing east with his father and brothers; being overtaken by the Germans; returning home; ghettoization; tensions over housing; smuggling; selections and deportations; surviving a mass execution; sneaking back to the ghetto; forced labor; transfer to Panevėžys; incarceration in Stutthof; obtaining extra food; transfer to Landshut, then to Mühldorf (Waldlager); his physical deterioration; evacuation by train in April 1945; a massacre of prisoners by the SS; escaping with others; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. S. discusses continuing friendship with a friend from the ghetto; his respect for the Kaunas Jewish committee; and witnessing an encounter between the ghetto head, Elkhanan Elkes, and Germans.
a| This testimony has some Hebrew and Yiddish.
a| Shmuel S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3320). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. master;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Elkes, Elkhanan,
d| 1879-1944.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98101318
a| Stutthof (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029619
a| Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028020
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Escapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
a| Friendship.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Lithuania
z| Kaunas.
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Jewish councils.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Lithuania.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573
a| Kaunas (Lithuania)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100
a| Panevėžys (Lithuania)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83221108
a| Hebron.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071376
a| Rishon le-Tsiyon (Israel)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85014478
a| Petaḥ Tiḳṿah (Israel)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85230016
a| Palestine.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097163
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Landshut (Germany: Concentration camp)
a| Tarsi, Anita,
e| interviewer.
a| Stauber, Roni,
e| interviewer.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001002887
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3320)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5h7br8mh91
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/