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Norbert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3379)
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Norbert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3379) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline, July 15, 1996.
Created
New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (58 min.) : col.
Language
English
Notes
Associated material: Norbert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-839), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Norbert S. and Edward S. Holocaust testimony [with friend] (HVT-840), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Schalet, Norbert. Interview 13333. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Norbert S., who was born in 1923. This testimony includes much of the information from an earlier interview (HVT-839). Additional topics discussed include his childhood and bar mitzvah in Gdynia; the family move to L'viv in 1935; liquidation of the ghetto resulting in his separation from his father; entering Janowska camp with assistance from a Russian guard; public executions; escape; hiding with a Ukrainian woman; obtaining false papers with assistance from a Russian guard; reunion with his sister in Kolomyi︠a︡; hiding in a stable with assistance from a non-Jewish woman from 1943 until 1944; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. S. discusses continuing nightmares and his children's reluctance to hear about his experiences.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Norbert S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3379). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Norbert S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3379). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Oral histories (document genres)
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