- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Samuel S., who was born in Sni︠a︡tyn, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna the following year; antisemitic harassment in school; Austrians warmly welcoming German occupation in 1938; attending Jewish school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest (he was in Dachau for four months, then Buchenwald for four months); his release upon promising to emigrate; obtaining documents in 1939 for three to emigrate to Palestine; his father, mother, and younger sister emigrating there; his emigration to Belfast with assistance from an Irish woman, a friend of a friend; living on a farm in County Dublin supported by local Jews; attending university in Belfast, then Edinburgh; avoiding incarceration as an enemy alien; emigration to the United States after the war to attend graduate school at Yale; and his career as a city planner. Mr. S. notes how lucky he was; his parents' and sister's return to Vienna to live after the war; and circulating a newsletter to his Viennese Jewish schoolmates. He shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- S., Samuel, 1920-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
- Interview Date
- March 20, 2007.
- Locale
- Austria
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Dublin (Ireland : County)
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Vienna (Austria)
Poland
Sni︠a︡tyn (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Samuel S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4393). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
