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• Author/Creator:S., Michael, 1934-
  
• Title:Michael S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4415) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof, April 22, 2008.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2008.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 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.4415)
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• Notes:3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Michael S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1934, one of two children. He recalls vacations in Zakopane; German invasion; fleeing to Kielce; returning home; public hangings of Jews; escaping deportation through a friend of the head of the Judenrat; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; fearing separation from his parents; his mother hiding him in her workplace during the day; his mother approaching a Polish prostitute and asking her to find them a hiding place; hearing she had found them a place; escaping with his parents and sister with assistance from a German officer (they never learned his name); hiding with a Polish family in a dovecote in Dąbrowa Górnicza; paying them with jewelry and gold; suffering from cold and hunger; liberation by Soviet troops eighteen months later; returning to their home in Sosnowiec; attending school; their emigration to Israel in 1950, then later to the United States; and becoming a professor of economics. Mr. S. notes the importance of his mother's ingenuity and aggression to their survival, and continuing to assist their rescuers after the war. He shows photographs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Michael S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4415). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Michael, 1934-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
  Fathers and sons.
  Mothers and sons.
  Brothers and sisters.
  Poland.
  Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  Zakopane (Poland)
  Kielce (Poland)
  Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland)
  Israel.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews
  Postwar experiences.
  Sosnowiec ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.