Solomon M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Solomon M., who was born in Je?drzejo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls the family farm; attending Polish school and cheder; serving in the Polish army from 1937 onward; German invasion; three months as a prisoner of war; returning home; finding the town ghettoized; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; six months of railroad work at Se?dziszo?w; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; eighteen months in werke C; clandestinely receiving food from non-Jewish workers; transfer to Cze?stochowa in late 1943, then to Buchenwald in mid-1944; clearing corpses from the barracks every morning; a death march during which ninety percent perished; receiving sugar from a friend which helped him go on; and liberation near Ainring at the end of 1944. Mr. M. describes working in the Ainring displaced persons camp kitchen for two years; learning his sister survived and was living in Israel; emigration to the United States in 1950; assistance received from HIAS; and learning the Jews from his town has been deported to Treblinka.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- M., Solomon, -- 1916-
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie)
- Mutual aid.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation -- Jewish.
- Prisoners of war -- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation -- Polish.
Places
- Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
- Poland.
- Sędziszów (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Jędrzejów ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat