Morris K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in 1926 in ?o?dz?, Poland. He recalls German invasion; being caught in a round-up in December 1939; forced labor near Hamburg; transfer to Poznan? in March 1941 when it was discovered he was Jewish; transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto in February 1943; reunion with his father; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau several days later. Mr. K. tells of a privileged work assignment obtained through a friend; two weeks in the punishment camp in March 1944; transfer to the Sonderkommando; working at the cremation pits into which guards threw living children; a friend who buried written accounts in the ashes (some were later recovered); execution of prisoners who attempted escapes; Josef Mengele's laboratory; the mass shooting of 300 children, of which he still dreams; the Sonderkommando revolt in October; dismantling the crematoria; the death march to Mauthausen, then Ebensee in January 1945; working in mines; and liberation by United States troops. He recounts living in Feldafing and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage in 1946; living in Marburg and Stuttgart; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. K. discusses vivid details of the Sonderkommando and how he lives with these memories.

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