- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1922, and is accompanied by his friend Edward S. They describe meeting in mid-1942, when Norbert helped Edward get a job and lodging in the Lʹvov ghetto; forging work permits; round-ups and selections at Janowska; and a Soviet bombing raid on Lʹvov. Edward recounts escape from the ghetto dressed as a German soldier; jumping from a train because he feared recognition; and the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Norbert recalls his escape; finding refuge with a young Ukrainian woman; and his honor and joy in returning to Lʹvov as a Soviet liberator. They discuss their attitudes toward the German, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian people; their chance reunion in America in 1952; and their subsequent reliance on each other for psychological and emotional support.
- Author/Creator
- S., Norbert, 1922-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- April 22, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Norbert S. and Edward S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-840). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Edward S. and Frank S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-642), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Norbert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-839), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related publication: My war : memoir of a young Jewish poet / Edward Stankiewicz ; with a foreword by Barbara Handler. - - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2002.
