Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony, he recounts the importance of singing to his family; his bar mitzvah; briefly fleeing to Toulouse at the German invasion; participating in Gordonyah; singing for extra food in the camps; public hangings; being raped by a German kapo; and his mother and sisters returning from Turkey after the war with Red Cross assistance. Mr. S. discusses reciting poetry and mentally calculating equations as a coping mechanism in the camps; continuing behaviors resulting from his camp experiences; his postwar political development leading him to embrace socialism; his marriages; continuing his education and his academic career in France; focusing on Sephardic languages and culture; and sharing his experiences with his son.
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1998
- Interview Date
- January 19 and 20, 1998.
- Locale
- Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Toulouse (France) - Cite As
- Haim S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4079). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Related material: Paul H. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-1978), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Haim S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2163), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Isaac S. Holocaust testimony [brother](HVT-4080), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 2 videorecordings (3 hr., 8 min., and 4 hr., 18 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Bar mitzvah. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Friendship. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Rape. Death marches. Concentration camps--Songs and music. Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Toulouse (France) Oral histories (document genres) S., Haim,--1923- Malines (Concentration camp) Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Myslowice (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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/4677206
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:26:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4677206
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