Mark K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mark K., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1911, one of four children. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; marriage; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a mass killing of Jews by local Ukrainians; working in the oil refineries; the murders of his parents, brother, and one sister; ghettoization; asking his boss to hide his wife; building a bunker at the house of a non-Jewish woman who agreed to hide his wife and sisters (they stayed there for two years); continuing to work in the oil refinery; escaping from a mass killing; joining his wife and sister (he remained for eighteen months); the woman hiding them telling them of Soviet liberation; working for the Soviet government; transfer to L?viv, then Drohobych; repatriation to Poland with his wife and sister; living in Wa?brzych; and emigration to the United States in 1947. Mr. K. discusses economic difficulties; establishing a successful business; testifying at a war crime trial in Munich in 1961; and continuing physical ailments resulting from beatings during the war.

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