- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Surawno, Austria (now U.S.S.R.) in 1907. He recounts attending cheder; his father's Austrian patriotism; fleeing to the Carpathians, Vienna, and Teplice during World War I; returning home where everything had been destroyed; attending school under Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet auspices as governments changed; and his brother's return from Austrian Army service, having lost a leg. Mr. S. tells of living with his aunt in Teplice; activities in Zionist groups; returning home; graduation from university and law school in Kraków; legal clerkship and practice in Lwów; moving to Belgrade in 1939 for employment in his uncle's business; marriage in 1938; he and his wife obtaining U.S. visas; brief imprisonment in Leskovac; efforts to obtain transit visas from Greece, Turkey, and Iraq; incidents in the journey with his wife and aunt; ship travel from Basra to Karachi to Bombay; and arrival in the United States in 1941. He describes adjustment difficulties; the births of his children; and learning of the deaths of most of his family in Europe.
- Author/Creator
- S., Irving, 1907-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- July 18, 1985.
- Locale
- Austria
Z︠H︡uravno (Ukraine)
Stryĭ (Ukraine)
Teplice (Czech Republic)
Kraków (Poland)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Leskovac (Leskovac, Serbia)
- Cite As
- Irving S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-596). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,
- Notes
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Associated material: Frances S. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-600), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
