Sara S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sara S., who was born in Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland in 1922, one of ten children. She recalls her father was a Ger Hasid; attending public and a Beth Jacob school; some of her brothers' military service; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and two siblings to Sandomierz; staying in Da?browa Go?rnicza; reunion with her father and two siblings in Krako?w; moving to Stopnica, her mother's hometown; her youngest brother going to Krako?w (she never saw him again); taking in a friend and her family; her father secretly acting as a shochet; deportation with a brother and sister to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; trading with civilian workers for food; transfer with her sister to Leipzig; continuing slave labor in a munitions factory; group punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; a death march; abandonment by the guards; liberation by Soviet troops in Dresden; returning home with friends; and moving to the Bamberg displaced persons camp in 1946. Ms. S. discusses the importance of keeping their spirits strong in camps. She shows photographs and a "KZ" (concentration camp) ring made by a Polish worker she assisted.
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., Sara, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Sandomierz (Poland)
- Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland)
- Poland.
- Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
- Bamberg (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Leipzig (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Dresden (Germany)
- Stopnica (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat