Shlomo S. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Gutman, Israel.
- S., Shlomo, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Montelupich (Prison)
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Escapes.
- Brothers.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Tarnów ghetto.
- Kraków ghetto.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Warsaw ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat