Leopold P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leopold P., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1913. He recalls his large, extended family; Jewish life in Krako?w; working as a high school teacher; helping Jews expelled from Germany after Hitler came to power; serving as an officer in the Polish army; German invasion; capture and escape to Krako?w from a prisoner of war transport in October 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; meeting Oskar Schindler; choosing not to escape from the ghetto because of his wife; an encounter with Amon Goeth when the ghetto was liquidated; brutality and frequent killings in P?aszo?w; a German soldier who provided food for him and his wife and helped them get on "Schindler's list"; sabotaging manufacturing in Brne?nec with Schindler's complicity; and overpowering the guards prior to liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. P. recounts traveling to Budapest, then Germany; working for UNRRA in Munich; and emigrating with his wife to the United States in 1947. He discusses the importance of an optimistic attitude and luck to his survival, participating in Holocaust survivors' organizations, and his role in the writing of Thomas Keneally's "Schindler's List." Mr. P. details many instances of Schindler and his wife protecting Jews.

2 videocassettes