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Author/Creator:S., Jacques, 1933-
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Title:Jacques S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4077) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt, December 4, 1996.
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Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1996.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (4 hr., 8 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.4077)
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:This testimony is in French.
2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary: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.
Mr. S. recalls traveling to the western zone; meeting Titsch in Vienna; living in the Ulm displaced persons camp; his bar mitzvah; moving to Paris and attending school for the first time in his life; emigration with his family to Israel in 1949; intense private tutoring for ten months; attending school; enlisting in the military; emigrating by himself to Canada in 1955 (his parents and brother left for Germany); returning to Israel; marriage; the births of two children; and emigration to Belgium in 1965. He notes the importance of the use of the diamonds to their survival; recurring nightmares resulting from his experiences; for years, having emotional difficulty discussing his story; sharing his story with his children; feeling at home in Israel; and becoming "normal" due to his army and sport experiences in Israel.
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Cite as:Jacques S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4077). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Jacques, 1933-
Madritsch, Julius, 1906-1984.
Titsch, Raimund, 1897-1968.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Kraków.
Fathers and sons.
Mothers and sons.
Brothers.
Escapes.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Refugee camps.
Families.
Bar mitzvah.
Nightmares.
Kraków (Poland)
Poland.
Bochnia (Poland)
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Paris (France)
Israel.
Canada.
Vienna (Austria)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Bunkers.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Kraków ghetto.
Ulm (Germany : Refugee camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4677199