Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1933. He recounts cordial relations with Catholic neighbors; his father liquidating their assets and buying diamonds; ghettoization; protection due to his father's supervisory role in the Madritsch factory; occasionally working in the factory; being smuggled out, with assistance from Jewish police, when the ghetto was liquidated; hiding alone in the factory for eight days; a non-Jewish woman bringing him food; being sent to hide as a non-Jew with a Polish family in the countryside; praying and attending church with them; the Polish father bringing him to join his parents, older brother, and aunt in Bochnia (the non-Jewish factory owners, Raimund Titsch and Julius Madritsch, had arranged their escape and they had false papers as non-Jews); immediate departure for the Czech border with paid smugglers; arrest in Liptovský Mikuláš; release of all the Jews (forty) in the jail after his father bribed officials; six weeks walking to Budapest at night; moving frequently; German invasion; paying a peasant in the countryside to hide them in a bunker; shopping for food with his mother (he spoke Hungarian and was blond); the peasant expelling them when his mother was spotted by locals; living outside of Budapest; and liberation by Soviet troops.

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