Simon S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1356)

Videotape testimony of Simon S., who was born in Poland in 1922. He recalls attending public school; an apprenticeship at age fourteen; the outbreak of war; public hanging of the Jewish leaders; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor for eighteen months in Leszno; the hanging of two friends who had as...

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Main Author: S., Simon, 1922-
Other Authors: Samorodin, Lucy (Interviewer), Siegel, Dorothy G. (Interviewer)
Format: Kit
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
Subjects:
Men
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