Henry E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Henry E., who was born in 1919 in Krako?w, Poland, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending cheder; his father's death when he was nine; attending public school, then a Jewish high school; participating in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Lublin; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; a Pole hiding his mother during a selection; learning his brother and his children had been killed while in hiding; his sister's deportation with her children (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation; his deportation to P?aszo?w; public hangings; becoming emotionally numb; transfer to Dresden; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; a cousin and friend helping him on the death march to Theresienstadt in February 1945; liberation by Soviet troops in May; walking to Prague; hospitalization; reunion with his fiance?e; marriage; traveling to Plzen?, then Munich; and emigration to the United States. Mr. E. notes the murder of almost all his extended family; sharing his experiences with his children; attributing his survival to luck; and a recent visit to Krako?w.

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