Joe S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joe S., who was born in Pidhai?t?s?i, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1922 to a family of eight children. He recalls his father's military service in World War I; attending school until age fourteen; good relations with non-Jews; German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat supplying men for forced labor; forced labor in Lavrykovtse for nine months; highway work; learning his parents and two sisters had been killed; the brutal murder of an escaped prisoner in Zborow; escaping to the partisans from a labor camp; hiding in bunkers and the forest for two years; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. describes returning to Pidhai?t?s?i; learning no family members had survived; moving to L'viv a year later; marriage in Krako?w; living in the Bad Reichenhall displaced person camp; transfer by UNRRA to Funk Kaserne in Munich; and emigrating from Hamburg to the United States.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)