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Isaac S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4080) interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt and Yannis Thanassekos,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4080

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Isaac S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1925 to Turkish parents, one of six children. He recounts speaking Ladino at home; tensions between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews; participating in a Zionist group with his brother Haim; German invasion; two brothers briefly fleeing to France; exemption from anti-Jewish restrictions as Turkish citizens; working with the resistance group Mouvement National Beige, hiding Jewish families and distributing underground newspapers and false papers; several arrests, then release as a Turkish citizen until 1943; his brother Haim's arrest, then his a month later; deportation to Malines, then with his father to Buchenwald; slave labor in a quarry; protecting his father from the heaviest work; being advised to volunteer as masons; solidarity among communist prisoners who ran the camp benefiting him and his father; frequent public hangings; non-Jewish prisoners sharing Red Cross packages with the Jews; hiding to avoid transfer; a death march then train transport to Dachau; liberation on April 29, 1945, the day after their arrival; many deaths from eating; hospitalization for typhus; convalescing in Reichenau and Davos; returning to Brussels; learning his father had died; reunion with his brothers, then with his mother and sisters after their return from Turkey; joining a hachshara; traveling to Lyon and La Ciotat with his group; illegal emigration to Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration in Famagusta, Cyprus; release; living on a kibbutz; finding no one was interested in his experiences; visiting his mother before her death in 1950; returning to Belgium in 1951; marriage; several different careers; helping Algerian emigres; and becoming a Belgian citizen. Mr. S. discusses bonding with his father in Buchenwald; the camp hierarchy; and his determination to adapt to camp life.
    Author/Creator
    S., Isaac, 1925-
    Published
    Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1997
    Interview Date
    October 20 and December 8, 1997.
    Locale
    Belgium
    Israel
    Brussels (Belgium)
    Reichenau (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
    Davos (Switzerland)
    Lyon (France)
    La Ciotat (France)
    Famagusta (Cyprus)
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Isaac S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4080). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Thanassekos, Yannis, interviewer.
    Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in French.
    Related material: Haim S. Holocaust testimony [brother](HVT-4079), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Related material: Haim S. Holocaust testimony [brother](HVT-2163), 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 (4 hr., 47 min.; 2 hr., 12 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Zionists. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. Fathers and sons. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Quarries and quarrying. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion. Public opinion--Israel. Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Reichenau (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) Davos (Switzerland) Lyon (France) La Ciotat (France) Famagusta (Cyprus) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) S., Isaac,--1925- Malines (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Dachau (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4677209
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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