A teacher and his students: Child Holocaust Testimonies from Early post-war Polish Bytom
The document presented here was created in 1945 in Bytom, Poland. It contains testimonies by Holocaust survivor children collected and put down in a notebook by their survivor teacher, Shlomo Tsam, in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. The testimonies shed light on Jewish children’s experience in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, describing oppression, flight, […]
The 1945 Bytom Notebook: Searching for the Lost Voices of Child Holocaust Survivors
This paper focuses on an unpublished Yiddish manuscript of 42 child Holocaust testimonies, collected and written down in Polish Bytom in 1945 by Shlomo Tsam, the principal of the local Hebrew School, who – through chronicling the fate of his charges under the Nazis – gave permanence to the children’s stories of loss and survival, […]