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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Simcha S., who was born in Puławy, Poland in 1914. He recalls working in Warsaw; antisemitism stimulated by Nazi propaganda; participation in the Polish Socialist party and Worker's Theater; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet occupied Poland; working in Lviv, then in a coal mine; becoming a Soviet citizen; being drafted and wounded after the German invasion; demobilization; and moving to Tashkent. Mr. S. recounts learning one brother had been killed by Ukrainians; enlisting in Anders' Polish army which went to Palestine, then Italy; enlisting in Britain's Jewish Brigade; their movement from Italy to Holland; organizing a group trip to Poland to seek surviving family; encountering antisemitism in his hometown; learning none of his family were alive; moving to London; writing for a daily Yiddish paper; emigration to Argentina in 1947; continuing to work for the same paper; marriage; and beginning to write in Spanish. He discusses his belief in the importance of Yiddish and Spanish literature culminating in publication of Raíces, which integrates both; strong memories of all his family members who perished, his Red Army, and Jewish Brigade comrades; and hopes that his children will not know war.
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