Louis E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Louis E., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1923 to a religious family of four children. He describes childhood in an antisemitic atmosphere; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; Jewish police rounding up forced laborers; deportations; learning about gas chambers from an escapee; the shooting of his parents and grandmother on the way to a selection; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer with his brother to Bliz?yn; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a Jewish policeman and a Pole; forced labor in Henrykowo; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Bliz?yn and Trzebinia; the death march through the Beskids; transfer to Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen and Hamburg; and liberation from Sandbostel, where he had witnessed cannibalism by Soviet POWs, by British troops. Mr. E. recalls recovering with his brother in a hospital; living with him in Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; traveling via Hannover to Bergen-Belsen refugee camp; living in Bonn, Cologne, and Du?sseldorf; and emigrating to the United States in 1949.

4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)