George S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of George S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1927. He describes childhood memories of antisemitism; his family's multi-generational association with textile dyeing; his father's initial belief that German antisemitism would be no worse than that in prewar Poland; the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; and his impressions of H?ayim Rumkowski. He recalls ghetto conditions including constant hunger, indiscriminate shootings, mass deportations, and the killing of most of his relatives; his arrest by the Jewish police for smuggling; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; and deportation with his father, mother and sister to Auschwitz. Mr. S. remembers the selection for death of his mother and sister; transport to Friedland; forced labor; suffering from frostbite, hunger and repeated beatings; Soviet liberation in May 1945; reunion with his father; their return to ?o?dz? and escape to western Germany in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1950. He discusses nightmares and other problems with which he has suffered since.

6 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)