Paul M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending school in Piotrko?w and Warsaw; antisemitic harassment and beating by fellow students; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; burning of the synagogue; ghettoization; forced labor; arrest and beating by the Jewish police; his workshop director securing his release; his brother's deportation; working in another factory; being denounced as a saboteur; arrest; transfer to Katowice; a beating; hospitalization; recruitment by Armia Ludowa; release with his factory director's assistance; smuggling his father out of a group selected for deportation; joining Armia Ludowa in Za?bkowice; hiding his parents and siblings in a bunker; recruiting for Armia Ludowa; their attacks on Germans (at times, his sister and brother were with him); his father's death and burial in the woods; liberation by Soviet troops in Lublin; reunion with his mother and two sisters in Da?browa Go?rnicza; returning home briefly; appointment as a security official in Katowice identifying Polish collaborators; visiting Auschwitz shortly after liberation; reburying his father in Be?dzin; one sister's illness; taking her to Merano, Italy for treatment with his brother and mother via Bratislava, Vienna, and Innsbruck; returning home; searching for war criminals in Budapest, Germany, and France; visiting his sister; her death in 1947; working in refugee camps in Italy for the Joint and UNRRA; assisting Berih?ah; emigration to the United States in 1949; marriage in 1952; transferring his father's remains to the United States after his mother's death; and sharing his experiences with his children.

4 videocassettes