Mikel C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mikel C., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. He describes his affluent family; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; beatings of Jews: illegally entering France; arrest in Metz; transfer to Germany; arrests for illegally entering Holland and Belgium; incarceration in a Belgian refugee camp; release to study art in Antwerp with assistance from the Jewish community; German invasion; traveling to Brussels; watching the British evacuation at Dunkerque; translating for the SS in Calais as a non-Jew; joining his sister in Brussels (she later emigrated to the United States); managing a nightclub for German officers; rejoining his parents in Vienna; appraising valuables confiscated from Jews for a German official; hiding with his parents during deportations; and escape to Bucharest via Zagreb. Mr. C. recalls their deportation to Czernowitz, then Mogilev; sadistic killing of Jewish children; transfer to Baca?u; forced labor at a leather factory; sabotaging the work; escaping; joining the partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling with his parents to Bucharest; marriage; moving to Salzburg; visiting displaced persons camps; joining the Irgun; sabotaging British trains; living in Paris; and emigration to the United States. Mr. C. notes he is plagued by memories, particularly of victimized children, and he shows photographs and his drawings.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)