Morris R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Morris R. who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1922 and grew up in Da?browa Go?rnicza. He recalls traditional family life; attending public school and cheder; Jewish scout activities; German invasion; attempting to reach Warsaw with his older brother; returning home upon learning that the Germans were everywhere; anti-Jewish restrictions; imposition of forced labor on the Jewish community through a Judenrat; his sister's deportation to Gru?nberg; ghettoization in 1942; and his family's deportation in August. Mr. R. recounts receiving food from a Gestapo chief for repairing his house; transfer to Annaberg, then Gru?nberg; seeing his sister; receiving extra food which he gave to female prisoners; transfer to Kretschamberg in February 1944; reaching "the end of his rope" due to hard labor and starvation; reassignment which provided more food; learning of the liquidation of Da?browa and that two brothers were in Auschwitz; a forced march to Buchenwald in March 1945; seeing piles of corpses, dying people, and cannibalism; a forced march through Weimar to Terezi?n; and liberation by Soviet troops. He describes travelling in Czechoslovakia seeking family; six months in a displaced persons camp in Salzburg; reunion with his siblings; and emigration to the United States in 1949.

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