Marc S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marc S., who was born in 1922 in Kielce, Poland. He recalls antisemitic incidents in his childhood; participating in Zionist activities; his grandmother and older brother emigrating to the United States; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; burying his father who was killed as a hostage; ghettoization; smuggling food which kept him from starving to death; his family's deportation in a round-up; hiding three children his brigade found; disbelief when a returned deportee reported gassing at Treblinka; deportation in 1944 to Auschwitz, then Birkenau; improved conditions at I.G. Farben's Buna Monowitz plant; receiving extra food from a non-Jewish block leader; the death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Dora/Nordhausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. He recounts living in Hannover and a displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1946.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Marc, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
- Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Zionist activities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kielce.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Kielce ghetto.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Poland.
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Hannover (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat