Marc S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1452
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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

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