Peter S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. He recounts moving to Prague with his parents in 1933, then to Amsterdam in 1938; attending a Dutch school; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures including expulsion from school, wearing the star, and having to move; obtaining Ecuadorian passports from relatives in Sweden; deportation to Westerbork in January 1944, then to Bergen-Belsen three months later; forced labor in a shoe commando; deteriorating conditions after prisoners arrived from Auschwitz; their transfer, three months prior to war's end, to Algeria as part of a South American prisoner exchange due to their Ecuadorian passports; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. notes he and his parents survived because they left Germany prior to the war, and that his grandmother perished in Theresienstadt.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Peter, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Fathers and sons.
- Mothers and sons.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Forced labor.
- Child survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Algeria.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat