Max B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Max B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland, in 1914. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-94). Additional topics discussed include prewar antisemitism in Poland; his draft into the Polish army after the outbreak of war; ghettoization; volunteering with his younger brother when H?ayim Rumkowski asked for laborers; working as electricians in a labor camp; the importance of remaining with his brother; relatively good conditions; transfer and separation from his brother upon arrival in Auschwitz; transfer to Monowitz; the death march to Gleiwitz; transfer with his brother in an open cattle car to overcrowded camps; and working in Dora. Mr. B. details participating in resistance and sabotage in concentration camps; taking the place of weaker prisoners during selections; feeling responsible for people being hanged for sabotage in Dora; increasingly severe conditions of starvation and dehumanization; witnessing cannibalism during transport to Bergen-Belsen; the physical and psychological state of survivors after liberation by British troops; escaping to Celle; meeting American troops; moving to Hannover; marriage; and emigration to the United States.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)