Joseph S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1931. He recalls attending public school; studying with his father, a rabbi; his grandfather's arrival from Austria in 1938; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with his family to France; living at a refugee shelter in Saint-Pourc?ain-sur-Sioule; moving to Vichy; living at a hotel which housed OSE offices; moving to Nice in August 1940; his grandfather's death; hiding after foreign Jews were required to report to authorities; living openly during Italian occupation; German occupation in September 1943; he and his brother being placed in hiding by OSE (his parents and sister were hiding elsewhere); visiting his parents; transfer to a Catholic boarding school; moving to Grasse, then a pension in Villard-de-Lans; corresponding with his parents; liberation by United States troops; reunion with his parents in Nice; his bar mitzvah; emigration to the United States in 1952; and becoming a rabbi and professor of French literature and Jewish studies. Mr. S. discusses writing about the use of autobiography in Holocaust studies and the many non-Jews who saved them. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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., Joseph, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Italian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Family.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Brothers.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Villard-de-Lans (France)
- Grasse (France)
- Nice (France)
- Vichy (France)
- Belgium.
- Charleroi (Belgium)
- Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat