Naftali L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Nowy Z?migro?d, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending cheder, then public school; antisemitic harassment and beatings; his father's death; German invasion; fleeing to Lesko; returning; forced labor building roads; deportation to Frysztak; returning home; frequent round-ups; deportation to Jas?o, then P?aszo?w; slave labor constructing railways; receiving food from his sisters who were in hiding; their arrival; transfer with them and a cousin to Skarz?ysko; assignment to a munitions factory; meetings with his sisters; transfer to Sulejo?w; digging anti-tank trenches; transfer two months later to Cze?stochowa, then Buchenwald; clearing rubble in Weimar; receiving food from a woman; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; construction work; train transfer to Mauthausen; Czechs giving them bread en route; his cousin's death; liberation by American troops; hospitalization; other patients protecting him from an antisemitic Pole; transfer to a village, then to Bratislava; learning his sisters had survived; traveling to Prague, Cze?stochowa, ?o?dz?, then Czersk Pomorski; reunion with his sisters in a kibbutz in Gdan?sk; traveling to Bratislava; staying briefly in a refugee camp; traveling to Karlovy Vary, then with Berih?ah to many locations including Munich, Innsbruck, Merano, and Milan; living in a kibbutz in Tradate; emigration to Palestine via La Spezia; capture by the British; internment in Cyprus; release; living in several kibbutzim; emigration to the United States in 1959; marriage; his children's births; his wife's death; and remarriage. Mr. L. discusses camp prisoners clandestinely baking matzoh to observe Passover; his state of mind in camps; and sharing his experiences with his children.

4 videocassettes