Philip B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Philip B., who was born in Izbica, near Lublin, Poland, in 1925. He describes his prewar family life; the wartime transfer of German and Czech Jews to Izbica, a railroad center; and a typhus epidemic there. He recounts the beginning of deportations to Be?z?ec, a nearby extermination camp, in 1941; his family's life in hiding; and the deportations of his father and other family members. Mr. B. relates his own capture by Polish police and his transfer to Gestapo headquarters; his feigned death in front of a firing squad; hiding with siblings and his mother; and his mother's capture and death. He tells of his transport to Sobibo?r in May 1943; witnessing the arrival of other transports; his participation in the inmate uprising in fall 1943; and his escape into the woods, where he hid until liberated by the Russians in 1944. Postwar topics include his treatment as a displaced person by Polish police; his participation in the 1983 trial of the former Kommandant of Sobibo?r and his concomitant visit to Sobibo?r and Izbica; and his postwar mental state.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)