Haim K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents and younger siblings to L?viv; their refusal to leave; visiting his sister in Kielce; returning to his parents' home; round-up by the Judenrat; deportation to Germany; slave labor in several camps; forming a prisoner group to share extra food and help the ill; transfer to Ottmuth, then Freiwaldau; kind treatment by a Jehovah Witness kapo; he and two friends planning an escape for over eight months (building a bunker near a workplace near the camp, storing food, taking tools, etc.); their escape; leaving the bunker at night for food and water; a German guard discovering them and not telling anyone; discovery outside their bunker by a camp official; eluding him and returning to their bunker. The testimony ends suddenly.

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