George S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-938) [videorecording] / interviewed by Sara Moss Herz and Joanne Weiner Rudof, June 25, 1987 and July 2, 1987.

New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987.

2 videorecordings (3 hr., 5 min. and 2 hr., 44 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Shainfarber, George. Interview 42600. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1927. He describes childhood memories of antisemitism; his family's multi-generational association with textile dyeing; his father's initial belief that German antisemitism would be no worse than that in prewar Poland; the ghettoization of Łódź; and his impressions of Ḥayim Rumkowski. He recalls ghetto conditions including constant hunger, indiscriminate shootings, mass deportations, and the killing of most of his relatives; his arrest by the Jewish police for smuggling; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; and deportation with his father, mother and sister to Auschwitz. Mr. S. remembers the selection for death of his mother and sister; transport to Friedland; forced labor; suffering from frostbite, hunger and repeated beatings; Soviet liberation in May 1945; reunion with his father; their return to Łódź and escape to western Germany in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1950. He discusses nightmares and other problems with which he has suffered since.

June 01, 2002

George S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-938). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

George S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-938). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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