Fred S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Stawiszyn, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; working at fifteen; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Kalisz in 1940; transfer to Koz?minek; deportation of all children including his younger siblings (they were killed); deportation with his brother and father to Poznan?-Schweiningen; slave labor unloading coal; public hangings; trying to obtain soup for his father from a cousin (he refused); his father's selection in 1942 (he never saw him again); transfer with his brother to Auschwitz (he never saw his mother, sister and brother again), then to Zgoda (S?wie?toch?owice); slave labor demolishing buildings, then in the kitchen; his brother's disappearance (he never saw him again); a beating for smuggling potatoes; transfer to Mauthausen; a death march; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wels; traveling to Salzburg displaced persons camp, then to Modena; returning to Germany; living in Munich, Landsberg and Feldafing displaced persons camps, then Moosburg with a cousin; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses always believing in God and sharing his experiences with his children when they were older.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Fred, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Zgoda (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Betar.
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Faith.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Brothers.
- Fathers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Koźminek (Województwo wielkopolskie)
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Poznań (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Salzburg (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Moosburg an der Isar (Germany)
- Koźminek ghetto.
- Modena (Italy)
- Munich (Germany)
- Kalisz (Poland)
- Wels (Austria)
- Poland.
- Stawiszyn (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat