Abraham U. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Abraham U., who was born in Gre?boszo?w, Poland in 1911, the youngest of seven children. He recalls apprenticing as a tailor in 1926; working in Tarno?w; returning to Gre?boszo?w when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Lut?s??k; returning to Gre?boszo?w after one year; seeing his mother prior to her death from cancer; earning extra food working as a tailor for the police; being warned of a round-up by the police chief; escaping to Barano?w; and brief protection from round-ups by a non-Jewish friend. Mr. U. recounts severe conditions and slave labor in Biesiadka; being beaten after a local farmer gave them food; evacuation to Pustko?w; transport to Auschwitz in the summer of 1943; transfer to Gleiwitz in 1944; being beaten for stealing food from a German officer's rabbits; evacuation to Blechhammer in late 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Barano?w; learning his family had all been killed; emigration to the United States in 1949, and marriage in 1951.

2 videocassettes