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• Author/Creator:S., Shmuel, 1920-
  
• Title:Shmuel S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3320) [videorecording] / interviewed by Anita Tarsi and Roni Stauber, December 26, 1991.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 12 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3320)
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• Notes:This testimony has some Hebrew and Yiddish.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Shmuel S., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1920. He recounts moving to Palestine with his family; living in Rishon le-Tsiyon, Petaḥ Tiḳṿah and Hebron; returning to Kaunas in 1929; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a massacre of Jews prior to the arrival of the Germans; fleeing east with his father and brothers; being overtaken by the Germans; returning home; ghettoization; tensions over housing; smuggling; selections and deportations; surviving a mass execution; sneaking back to the ghetto; forced labor; transfer to Panevėžys; incarceration in Stutthof; obtaining extra food; transfer to Landshut, then to Mühldorf (Waldlager); his physical deterioration; evacuation by train in April 1945; a massacre of prisoners by the SS; escaping with others; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. S. discusses continuing friendship with a friend from the ghetto; his respect for the Kaunas Jewish committee; and witnessing an encounter between the ghetto head, Elkhanan Elkes, and Germans.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Shmuel S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3320). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Shmuel, 1920-
  Elkes, Elkhanan, 1879-1944.
  Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Escapes.
  Friendship.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Jewish councils.
  Forced labor.
  Lithuania.
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Panevėžys (Lithuania)
  Hebron.
  Rishon le-Tsiyon (Israel)
  Petaḥ Tiḳṿah (Israel)
  Palestine.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Soviet occupation.
  Mass killings.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Kovno (Lithuania)
  Kovno ghetto.
  Landshut (Germany: Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Tarsi, Anita, interviewer.
  Stauber, Roni, interviewer.