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Author/Creator:S., Simon, 1922-
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Title:Simon S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1356) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dorothy G. Siegel and Lucy Samorodin, December 6, 1989.
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Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1356)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Simon S., who was born in Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; an apprenticeship at age fourteen; the outbreak of war; public hanging of the Jewish leaders; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor for eighteen months in Leszno; the hanging of two friends who had asked local Poles for food; transport to Birkenau in 1943; a severe beating; transfer to Jaworzno; forced labor in coal mines; receiving extra food for playing on the prisoner soccer team; and prisoners singing the Czech national anthem while awaiting hanging after an escape attempt. Mr. S. recounts the death march to Blechhammer in January 1945; hiding to avoid another march; aid from Italians in a nearby prisoner of war camp; arrival of Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been killed in Chełmno and his brother was alive in Germany; leaving for Germany in October 1945; reunion with his brother and two cousins; living in Freilassing; and emigration to the United States in 1949 with his brother's family. He discusses testifying at war crime trials in Germany in 1980 and 1989.
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Cite as:Simon S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1356). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Simon, 1922-
Jaworzno (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Forced labor.
Jewish ghettos.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
War crime trials--Germany.
Passive resistance.
Death marches.
Escapes.
Poland.
Freilassing (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
Leszno (Poland : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Siegel, Dorothy G., interviewer.
Samorodin, Lucy, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1084878