Jacov S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacov S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1912. He recalls attending an Italian school; marriage; the birth of a son; working as a barber; German invasion in 1941; six months in a forced labor camp; returning home; deportation of his family (none returned); his deportation two months later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; disbelief upon learning of the crematoria; transfer to Warsaw; slave labor clearing rubble in the former ghetto; liberation by Poles during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a barber for the partisans; posing as a non-Jew in a small village after the uprising failed; pretending to be mute since he did not speak Polish; liberation by Soviet troops; proving he was Jewish to a Soviet Jewish officer; working as a barber for the Soviets; repatriation to Thessalonike? via ?o?dz?; and remarriage. Mr. S. notes witnessing the deaths of many prisoners in Warsaw and not having more children after the war.
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Jacov, -- 1912-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Konzentrationslager Warschau.
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Children -- Death.
- Wife -- Death.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Greece.
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat