Moshe S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Moshe S., a twin, who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recounts his mother's dental practice; his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; summering in Kulautuva; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; compulsory membership in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; round-up of his father, uncle, and grandmother (they never saw them again); working as a carpenter and handyman; his mother hiding him and his twin brother during round-ups; his and his mother's assignments to factory slave labor; his mother treating patients; their deportation to Stutthof, where the women left the train, including his mother; continuing to Dachau with his twin, uncle, and cousin; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau ten days later; slave labor collecting corpses; a death march to Althammer; separation from his twin en route to Mauthausen (he never saw him again); assignment to the tent barrack; observing cannibalism; transfer to Gunskirchen; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wels; traveling with the Jewish brigade to Santa Maria di Leuca, then Naples; living in a Deror group; legal emigration to Palestine in 1945; military enlistment in 1948; his twenty-eight-year career as an army engineer; and reunion with his mother when she emigrated to Israel in 1956. Mr. S. reads from a book in which the author describes meeting him in Italy.
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- S., Moshe, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi.
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
- Deror (Organization : Poland)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- Twins.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Brothers.
- Cannibalism.
- Death marches.
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
Places
- Naples (Italy)
- Kovno ghetto.
- Wels (Austria)
- Santa Maria di Leuca, Cape (Italy)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Kulautuva (Lithuania)
- Lithuania.
- Althammer (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat