Charles L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls the outbreak of war; ghettoization; deaths from starvation; deportations; H?ayim Rumkowski pleading for people to give up their children; his father's death from starvation in 1942; his mother's deportation four weeks later; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; pulling his brother from the "wrong" line during selection; disbelief when he learned of the gas chambers and crematoria; transfer, with his brother, to Dachau two weeks later; work in a munitions factory; the singular focus on obtaining food; an assignment collecting bodies and removing gold dental work prior to mass burials; the death march from Dachau in April 1945; liberation by United States troops near Bad To?lz; transfer with his brother to the Feldafing displaced persons camp; hospitalization for six months; returning to Feldafing, then to the nearby city; and emigrating to the United States. He notes his postwar bitterness; reluctance to speak of his experience for many years; and his sense that he was really born in 1945.

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