Chaim S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Chaim S., who was born in ?omz?a, Poland in 1922. He recalls that his father edited a Yiddish weekly; his youngest brother's death in the German bombing on September 1, 1939; being caught in a round-up; release through the intervention of a non-Jewish family friend; Soviet occupation two weeks later; traveling to Vilna to rejoin his yeshiva; fleeing to Kovno to avoid deportation to Siberia; returning to Vilna on June 22, 1941, the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; boarding a train with Soviet officers' dependents; a brief arrest in Smolensk as a spy; working on a collective farm near Kui?byshev (now Samara); and being drafted. Mr. S. recounts traveling to Guzar to join the Polish army; his rejection due to antisemitism; working in Kzyl-Orda; becoming a Soviet citizen; and being arrested.
Extent and Medium
3 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
People
- S., Chaim, -- 1922-
Subjects
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Soviet occupation.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Smolensk (Russia)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Łomża (Poland)
- Poland.
- Samara (Russia)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Kzyl-Orda (Kazakhstan)
- Guzar (Uzbekistan)
- Kovno (Lithuania)
- Kuībyshev (Kuībyshevska︠ia︡ oblastʹ, R.S.F.S.R.)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat