Michael R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1911. He describes his childhood; his apprenticeship to a baker in Dzia?oszyce; the German occupation of his town; his marriage in December 1939; and the birth of his child in 1940. He speaks of his forced labor until the liquidation of his town in 1942; his and his family's unsuccessful attempts to hide; his brief stay with his wife and child in a labor camp near Krako?w; and their internment in the Krako?w ghetto, where he and his wife were separated from their child and his mother-in-law and taken to separate labor camps. He relates his transport to Gross Rosen; his transfer a week later to the Wu?stegiersdorf labor camp; and his arrival in Flossenbu?rg in January 1945. He recalls the march to Buchenwald; the death march from there, which he managed to flee; and his encounter with liberating U.S. soldiers. Mr. R. also recounts his immediate postwar activities; his journey to Krako?w in search of surviving family members; his reunion with his wife in Bergen-Belsen; their stay until 1948 in the displaced persons camp of Kirchenbruch; and the unsuccessful search for their child.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)