Jack R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913 to a family of ten children. He recounts attending yeshiva in Warsaw; working for a bank in Sosnowiec from 1935 to 1938, then in businesses in Katowice and Be?dzin; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; hiding in a bunker with his fiancee and siblings during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; separation from his sisters and fiancee upon arrival at Auschwitz; a privileged office job; visiting his fiancee in the women's camp; transfer with his brother to Sachsenhausen in October 1944, then to Dachau and Kaufering; and liberation by United States troops during a death march in April 1945. Mr. R. describes traveling to Zurich, seeking information about his relatives and fiancee; emigrating to Palestine; returning to Europe; marriage to his fiancee in 1946; their return to Palestine; returning to Europe in 1948; and emigrating to the United States from Hannover in 1950. Mr. R. discusses testifying at war crime trials in 1957 and 1963 in Germany and sharing his experiences with his children.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)