Jacov S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2791) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaša Almuli, June 1, 1993.

Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993.

1 videorecording (47 min.) : col.

Ladino

This testimony is in Ladino.

Videotape testimony of Jacov S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1912. He recalls attending an Italian school; marriage; the birth of a son; working as a barber; German invasion in 1941; six months in a forced labor camp; returning home; deportation of his family (none returned); his deportation two months later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; disbelief upon learning of the crematoria; transfer to Warsaw; slave labor clearing rubble in the former ghetto; liberation by Poles during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a barber for the partisans; posing as a non-Jew in a small village after the uprising failed; pretending to be mute since he did not speak Polish; liberation by Soviet troops; proving he was Jewish to a Soviet Jewish officer; working as a barber for the Soviets; repatriation to Thessalonikē via Łódź; and remarriage. Mr. S. notes witnessing the deaths of many prisoners in Warsaw and not having more children after the war.

June 01, 2002

Jacov S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2791). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Jacov S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2791). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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