Joe K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1929, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending the village school; his father's death; Hungarian occupation; his brothers' conscriptions into Hungarian slave labor battalions; round-up to the Munka?cs ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and two sisters (he never saw them again); giving extra clothing to his other sister; transfer a few days later to Buchenwald, then Leipzig; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; train transport a year later; escaping during an Allied bombing; capture; a death march; Czechs throwing them food in Litome?r?ice; a friend assisting him when he gave up hope; arrival in Theresienstadt; German guards letting them take food from nearby fields; sharing it with friends; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; traveling to Bratislava; re-hospitalization; traveling to Chop; reunion with his three brothers, sister, and other relatives; living in Kra?l?ovsky? Chlmec; joining a children's group to England in May 1946; emigrating to the United States in December 1949 to join his brother; military draft a year later; and combat experience in Korea. Mr. K. discusses returning to Hungary to transfer his father's remains to Israel; and his daughter's interest in his experiences.

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