Maurice S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0551
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Maurice S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1919 and raised in Szyd?owiec. He recounts his father's kosher butcher shop; German invasion; the Judenrat supplying forced laborers; escaping with friends from a labor camp in 1940; escaping from the Radom ghetto in 1941 using Polish papers; separation from his parents during the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; forced labor with his brothers sorting ghetto rubble and digging graves; hiding in the woods with his brothers with assistance from a Polish farmer; smuggling themselves into Wolano?w with assistance from a Polish acquaintance; mass killings, including one brother; transfer to Bliz?yn in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944; working in a coal mine; the death march to Gleiwitz on January 18, 1945; transfer to Dernau from a train that was bombed; and liberation by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. Mr. S. recalls hospital recuperation; returning to Poland; marriage in a displaced persons camp in Germany; assistance from UNRRA; the birth of his two children; and emigration to the United States in 1951.

Extent and Medium

4 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • S., Maurice, -- 1919-

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Bliżyn (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Refugee camps.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
  • Death marches.
  • Brothers.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
  • Jewish councils.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Mass killings.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • False papers.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Forests.

Places

  • Radom ghetto.
  • Wolanów (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Dernau (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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