Samuel G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2606
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Samuel G., who was born in Podhajce, Poland (presently Pidhai?t?s?i, Ukraine) in 1931. He recalls attending public school; one sister's emigration to the United States; attending high school in L?viv; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; draft into the Polish military in 1936 for eighteen months; training to emigrate to Palestine in Khodoriv; military call-up in August 1939; posting to Nowy Sa?cz; German attack; being wounded; capture; hospitalization as a Polish POW; transfer to Stalag XIII-Nu?rnberg, then Stalag VIIIA; receiving mail and packages through the Red Cross; learning his family had been killed; segregation of Jews in 1941; transfer to Lublin (Lipowa 7); slave labor building roads and Majdanek concentration camp; contracting typhus; transfer to the Lublin ghetto hospital; meeting a Polish boy who told him to escape and join Polish soldiers in the woods; organizing a mass escape of Jewish POWs in October 1942 with assistance from the AK; and learning the AK killed most of the escaped Jews.

Extent and Medium

5 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

  • Żymierski, Michał, -- 1890-
  • G., Samuel, -- 1913-

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • HIAS (Agency)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair.
  • Kriegsgefangenenlager Nürnberg-Langwasser.
  • Poland. -- Armia Ludowa.
  • Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp)
  • Stalag VIII A Görlitz.
  • Poland. -- Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Armia Krajowa.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
  • Partisans.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Revenge.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
  • Forests.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Draft -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • Prisoners of war -- Germany.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.

Places

  • Pidhaĭt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Poland.
  • Nowy Sącz (Poland)
  • Garbów (Poland)
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Khodoriv (Z︠H︡ydachivsʹkyĭ raĭon, Ukraine)
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Bujki (Poland)
  • Lublin (Poland)
  • Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Lublin ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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