Title
David S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2792) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaša Almuli, May 31, 1993.
Created
Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (29 min.) : col.
Notes
This testimony is in Ladino with some Greek.
Summary
Videotape testimony of David S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1916, one of five children. He recalls attending a Jewish school; his large extended family; working at his family's grocery business; one sister's emigration to Israel; German occupation; forced labor; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; his sister sending him food (she was a block commander); returning to Thessalonikē after liberation; learning only he and his sister had survived the camps; reopening his family's business; his sister's emigration to join their sister in Israel; remarriage to a woman who had been hidden by non-Jews; and the births of four children.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
David S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2792). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
David S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2792). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Genre/Form
Oral histories (document genres)