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Author/Creator:S., Abe, 1922-
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Title:Abe S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2748) [videorecording] / interviewed by Debra L. Rosenthal and Fred Donovan, August 1, 1994.
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Published/Created:Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 39 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.2748)
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:Audio quality of the first fifty minutes of this testimony is defective.
Related material: Sam S. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2464), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Chana S. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2620), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Abe S., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's poverty; their inability to feed him; working in a meatpacking house beginning at age twelve; German invasion; forced labor in several villages from August 1940 to September 1941; transfer to a weaving factory; sharing extra food with an older man; meeting his future wife (his second cousin); transfer to another camp in 1942; slave labor cutting down trees; a death march to Buchenwald in 1944; veteran prisoners asking him and others to kill two "green triangles" (criminals); receiving extra food for doing so; liberation by United States troops; learning his cousin (his future wife) was in Belsen; traveling there; reunion with his brother; their return home seeking surviving relatives (there were none); traveling to Łódź; marriage; living in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; his son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1948; and building his business. Mr. S. notes his pride in being American.
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Cite as:Abe S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2748). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Abe, 1922-
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Forced labor.
Husband and wife.
Death marches.
Refugee camps.
Będzin (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Rosenthal, Debra L., interviewer.
Donovan, Fred, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296980