Meir S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-258) [videorecording] / interviewed by Norman Blumenthal and Robert Prince, March 11, 1984.

New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1984.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 47 min.) : col.

English

The testimony cannot be used for publication without prior consent of the donor and his children.

Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Năsăud, Romania in 1925 to a family with fourteen children. He describes his father, a biblical scribe; his very religious upbringing; moving to a small village in Hungary as a young child; German occupation, ghettoization, and transfer of all Jews to another town; his father's humiliation at having to shave his beard; and transport to Auschwitz. Mr. S. recalls the treatment of the prisoners as numbers, not humans; not knowing what happened to his family and not being able to comprehend that he was in a death camp; volunteering as a mechanic and transport to Longwy-Thil; work in an underground factory manufacturing airplane parts; transfer to another camp in Germany; work in an underground salt mine where his physical condition deteriorated quickly; trading numbers with a man and leaving camp in his place for Dachau; transfer to Allach, a subcamp of Dachau; seeing one of his brothers days before he died; and liberation in early 1945. He recalls helping to organize illegal emigration to Palestine in Italy; reunion with his youngest brother Nechemia; their emigration to Palestine; Nechemia's death in the Israeli War for Independence; and Mr. S.'s marriage to a survivor whom he met in Israel. Mr. S. discusses the importance of religious observance and the impact of the losses on himself and the Jewish people as a whole.

June 01, 2002

Meir S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-258). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Meir S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-258). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)