Martin L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in Poland in 1914. He recalls his religious upbringing; discharge from the Polish army in 1938 after eighteen months service; recall in 1939; capture by Germans; escaping the mass shooting of his company; recapture and internment in Kutno as a non-Jewish prisoner of war; receiving false papers from a former schoolmate, which enabled him to continue to pose as a non-Jew; witnessing German soldiers set fire to a Jewish man; escaping to the Soviet zone; imprisonment as a spy by the Soviets; release by a Jewish colonel; a brief reunion with his family; enlisting in the Soviet army; learning of the liquidation of the Jews, including his family; visiting his hometown in 1944; and reporting neighbors who had killed his parents and sister. He recounts living in a displaced persons camp in Germany; emigration to the United States in 1948; and marriage to a woman he had met in a displaced persons camp.

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