Sol M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sol M., who was born in Radzano?w, Poland in 1920, one of eight children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in M?awa; public hangings; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz with a brother and two sisters in November 1942; slave labor with his brother; his brother's murder; praying on Yom Kippur; hearing rumors in July 1944 that Hitler was dead; contact with his sister; learning from her that their younger sister was dead; a death march; transport to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, then Crawinkel; evacuation to Buchenwald in April 1945; transport to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; traveling to Berlin, then ?o?dz?; reunion with his brother-in-law and sister in M?awa; traveling to Zeilsheim; emigration to the United States; marriage; and becoming a cantor. Mr. M. notes his memories are fragmentary; lack of emotion to his brother's death in Auschwitz; sharing his experiences with his son when he was seven; and a recent visit to Poland. He shows photographs.
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
- M., Sol, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Crawinkel (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Brothers.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Jews -- Poland -- Mława.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Radzanów nad Wkrą (Poland)
- Poland.
- Mława ghetto.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat