Joseph L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joseph L., who was born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland in 1921, one of four children. Mr. L. recounts attending a German school; training as a metal turner; German invasion; fleeing east with his mother and siblings to L?viv via Krako?w and Rava-Rus?ka; Soviet occupation; working in a Soviet government store; forced transport with his family by cattle car to Panino; forced labor felling trees, then cleaning chimneys; frigid temperatures and sparse food; receiving permission to leave; traveling with his family to Tashkent; encountering cousins and moving to the village where they lived; hospitalization twice, once with his sister (she died); his mother's death; learning the war was over and of concentration and death camps; receiving permission to return home in May 1946; traveling to Bytom; moving to Rothschild Hospital and Wegscheid displaced persons camps; assistance from UNRRA; Berih?ah organizing them to emigrate to Palestine; traveling to an UNRRA camp in Italy; hospitalization in Milan; marriage; his son's birth and death at three months; and emigration to Go?teborg, then to the United States thirty months later. Mr. L. shows photographs and documents.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)