Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3251
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Shlomo S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his secular family's relative affluence; his father's one-year trip to visit relatives in Argentina in 1937; he and his brother writing to him about increasing antisemitism; his return despite their letters; participating in Hashomer Hatzair with his brother and Israel Gutman; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; ghettoization; learning carpentry; many deaths from starvation; volunteering for forced labor; his father's disappearance; escaping; joining his brother in the Tarnów ghetto; his brother's participation in Jewish resistance; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew; working on a farm; traveling to Kraków; arrest as a suspected Jew; incarceration in Montepulich; interrogation and beatings; transfer to the ghetto prison, then to Tarnów; escaping a deportation train; returning to Tarnów ghetto; obtaining false papers from his brother (he never saw him again); working as an agricultural laborer; stealing and altering a peasant's identification card; obtaining legitimate identification as a non-Jew; liberation by Soviet troops; visiting Warsaw; joining a kibbutz; reunion with his mother in Wrocław; traveling illegally to Föhrenwald via Vienna and Munich; emigration with his mother to Israel after 1948; marriage; the births of his children; and his mother's death in 1965.

Extent and Medium

4 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Israel G. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-3325), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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