Shmuel M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Shmuel M., who was born in Stakčín, Hungary (presently Slovakia) in 1926, one of three children. He recounts his maternal grandparents living with them; attending public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah; attending gymnasium in Snina for three years; Hungary allying itself with Germany; deportation with his family to the Kolomyi︠a︡ ghetto; their transfer to Horodenka; arrest with her father while attempting to smuggle themselves to Slovakia; imprisonment in Sanok and Tarnów; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor hauling cement bags; his father being killed; being trained as a mason; a brief hospitalization; many deaths from exposure; the barrack secretary providing extra food and providing help when he was ill; frequent beatings; transfer to Mauthausen in open train cars; a Czech woman being shot for throwing them food; transfer to Melk, then Ebensee three months later; slave labor in an underground mine; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Hungary; reunion with an uncle; returning home; learning one sister had survived; joining her in Budapest; and emigration to Israel. Mr. M. discusses the "second class" status of survivors in Israel; sharing his experiences with his daughters; and his military career. He shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
5 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
- M., Shmuel, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Melk (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Public opinion -- Israel.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Fathers and sons.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Horodenka.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Kolomyi︠a︡.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Child survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Bar mitzvah.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Hungary.
- Stakčín (Slovakia)
- Snina (Slovakia)
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Sanok (Poland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Kolomyi︠a︡ ghetto.
- Horodenka ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat