Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Moshe S., a twin, who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recounts his mother's dental practice; his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; summering in Kulautuva; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; compulsory membership in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; round-up of his father, uncle, and grandmother (they never saw them again); working as a carpenter and handyman; his mother hiding him and his twin brother during round-ups; his and his mother's assignments to factory slave labor; his mother treating patients; their deportation to Stutthof, where the women left the train, including his mother; continuing to Dachau with his twin, uncle, and cousin; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau ten days later; slave labor collecting corpses; a death march to Althammer; separation from his twin en route to Mauthausen (he never saw him again); assignment to the tent barrack; observing cannibalism; transfer to Gunskirchen; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wels; traveling with the Jewish brigade to Santa Maria di Leuca, then Naples; living in a Deror group; legal emigration to Palestine in 1945; military enlistment in 1948; his twenty-eight-year career as an army engineer; and reunion with his mother when she emigrated to Israel in 1956. Mr. S. reads from a book in which the author describes meeting him in Italy.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996
- Interview Date
- December 5 and December 12, 1996.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Kulautuva (Lithuania)
Wels (Austria)
Santa Maria di Leuca, Cape (Italy)
Naples (Italy) - Cite As
- Moshe S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3876). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (4 hr., 12 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Soviet occupation.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences. - 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. Twins. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Brothers. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Death marches. Cannibalism. Lithuania. Kaunas (Lithuania) Kulautuva (Lithuania) Wels (Austria) Santa Maria di Leuca, Cape (Italy) Naples (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) S., Moshe,--1929- World Hashomer Hatzair. Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi. Stutthof (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Deror (Organization : Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4467169
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:51:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4467169
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