Eitan P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eitan P., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He recalls participation in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; German invasion; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother upon arrival; slave labor with his brothers; seeing his father; learning his father was selected for death; the death march to Gleiwitz; train transportation to Dora/Nordhausen; a Hungarian soldier (a former neighbor) saving his brother; public hangings; slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen (he never saw his brothers again); volunteering to burn corpses for extra food; and liberation by British troops. Mr. P. describes encountering the Jewish Brigade; learning in Khust that no family members had survived; traveling to Brivio to prepare to emigrate to Palestine; empathic villagers listening to his experiences; illegal emigration from Pisa to Palestine; incarceration by the British in Cyprus and ?Atlit; military service in the Israel-Arab War; pride in bearing arms despite Israeli scorn for survivors; marriage to a survivor; heightened memories during the Eichmann trial; and visiting Germany despite his discomfort.

3 videocassettes