John R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1920. He recalls attending elementary and technical high school in ?o?dz?; active participation in Jewish socialist organizations; antisemitic incidents; participating in Deror, a Zionist socialist movement; training on a kibbutz in Be?dzin in 1939; German invasion; walking to ?o?dz?; reconstituting the kibbutz in Be?dzin to aid the Jewish community; meeting his future wife; Frumk?ah Plot?nitsk?ah's visit to begin to organize resistance; rescuing children smuggled from the Warsaw ghetto; the kibbutz organizing a children's escape from a selection in August 1943; the Judenrat not revealing their identities; rescuing people from deportation using false papers; arrest and deportation to Auschwitz; working at a synthetic gasoline factory in Blechhammer; arranging his future wife's escape and her concealment with assistance from a Pole and a German guard; the death march to Buchenwald; assistance from German political prisoners; liberation in April 1945; and reunion with his future wife in Paris.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)