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Abraham S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4336) interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Susan Millen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4336

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Strîmtura, Romania in 1923, the seventh of ten children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing at yeshiva; deportation to Dragomirești in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer with a cousin to Buchenwald, then Dora; slave labor in tunnels; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; learning two sisters and a brother had survived; emigration to the United States in 1948; and his siblings' emigration to the U.S. Mr. S. discusses entering the family home when visiting Strîmtura twenty-three years ago.
Author/Creator: S., Abraham, 1923-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2005
Interview Date: June 22, 2005.
Locale: Romania
Strîmtura (Maramureș, Romania)
Dragomirești (Romania)
Sweden
Cite As: Abraham S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4336). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
Notes: Related material: Elias S. Holocaust testimony [cousin] (HVT-4335), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 3 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Romania. Strîmtura (Maramureș, Romania) Dragomirești (Romania) Sweden. Oral histories (document genres) S., Abraham,--1923- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7191582
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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