Avraham S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3494) interviewed by Anita Tarsi

Videotape testimony of Avraham S., who was born in Jēkabpils, Latvia in 1921, the oldest of three children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; attending university in Rīga in 1939; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in June 1941; forced labor clearing rubble; hearing rumors Jēkabpils's Jews had been murdered; his landlord, a Latvian priest, saving his life by hiding him during a round-up; ghettoization; daily slave labor; several mass killings; the arrival of Jews from Germany and Austria; transfer to Kaiserwald, then to Dundangen; slave labor building the camp; daily deaths; escaping with a friend; hiding in a barn; the owner caring for them for eleven months; liberation by Soviet troops; and returning to Rīga.