Milton S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-502) [videorecording] / interviewed by Sylvia Abrams, August 13, 1984.

Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 42 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Steinbock, Milton. Interview 13481. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Milton S., who was born in Dęblin, Poland in 1918, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty and orthodoxy; antisemitic violence in public school; leaving school to work as a painter; one sister's emigration to France in 1934; leaving home to work in Warsaw; sending money home; visiting on Jewish holidays; compulsory registration for military service; German invasion; digging fortifications for the Polish army; arrest by the Polish military; escaping when German troops arrived; walking to Ryki; locating his family; bombings; capture by Germans; slave labor as a painter in Puławy; digging graves for dead soldiers; transfer to Dęblin; escape; hiding in his parents' attic for a few days; daily forced labor; transfer to the Dęblin labor camp, then to Częstochowa in June 1944; slave labor in a steel factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then to other camps, including Flossenbürg; return to Buchenwald; accepting that he was going to die; transfer to Dachau; train transport; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wolfratshausen; living in Wolfratshausen, then Landsberg displaced persons camps; teaching in an ORT school; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. S. discusses treatment by a Jewish doctor in a camp hospital; praying with others in camp on Yom Kippur; deportations of his parents and siblings (he never saw them again); fellow prisoners giving him their bread before they died; and the importance of luck to his survival. He shows photographs and documents.

June 01, 2002

Milton S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-502). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Milton S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-502). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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