Larry K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z?H?uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgon?, and Oshmi?a?ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi?a?ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an engraver for almost three years; liberation by United States troops; moving to the Soviet zone; draft into the Soviet military; fleeing to his hometown in November 1945; finding only four Jewish survivors; traveling to Oshmi?a?ny; smuggling himself to Linz displaced persons camp in Austria; working for Berih?ah assisting in smuggling Jews to Palestine; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. K. discusses hunger in the camps and dreams of bread and milk; the importance to his survival of willpower, wishing for revenge, and instinct; sharing his experiences with his children despite his own difficulty believing them; nightmares; and pervasive memories. He shows photographs.

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