Itzhak R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Itzhak R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland (then Russia) in approximately 1915, one of three children. He recalls his father's prominent role as a leader in the Jewish community; his family's affluence; his three-day bar mitzvah celebration; obtaining documents to emigrate to Palestine; remaining with his family due to his father's illness; working in a bank; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to ?owicz, then Warsaw; their return home; working with the Judenrat chairman, H?ayim Rumkowski, whom he had previously known; ghettoization; working at various jobs for the Judenrat; losing his position due to disagreements with Rumkowski; being protected by others; assistance from non-Jews he had previously known; working in a shirt factory, the pharmacy, and gathering dead bodies for burial; preparing a bunker; hiding with about fifty others during the ghetto's liquidation; liberation by Soviet troops; transport by the Soviets to several locations; and emigration to Israel. Mr. R. names many people in the ?o?dz? ghetto and discusses their roles in the functioning of the ghetto.

5 videocassettes