Markus K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Markus K., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending Polish gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; attending pharmaceutical school in Czechoslovakia; his brother's death in 1931; working in Warsaw; his father's death in 1935; military draft in 1939; German invasion in September; discharge in Tyszowce; traveling with his brother-in-law to Li?u?boml?, Sokolya, and L?viv in the Soviet-occupied area; working in a pharmacy; trying to smuggle himself to rejoin his family in February 1940; arrest in Jaros?aw; a German releasing him at the Soviet border; returning to L?viv; deportation to a Soviet camp; a privileged position in the hospital as a pharmacist; transfer to Ul?i?a?novsk in September 1941; completing his medical studies in 1943; draft into the Polish army near Moscow; never serving due to a six-month illness; repatriation to Poland after the war; working for the Joint in Skoczo?w; marriage; the births of his children; moving to Wroc?aw in 1953; working as a pharmacist; growing antisemitism; and emigration with his family to the United States via Vienna and Rome in 1969. Mr. K. details the murders of many relatives in Nazi camps, including his mother and sisters.

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