Gerhard B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gerhard B., who was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls attending Jewish and Czech schools; learning German; attending gymnasium in Duchcov; being sent with his sister to live with his grandparents in Krako?w in 1938; being joined by their parents in 1939; German invasion; substituting for his father for forced labor; their expulsion from Krako?w; moving to Niepo?omice; forced relocation to Wieliczka; his grandparents', parents', and sister's deportation (he never saw them again); digging mass graves for murdered Jews; transfer to Rzesz?ow; escaping to Krako?w in August 1942; finding no Poles would help him; a futile attempt to illegally enter Slovakia; volunteering in Rabka for labor in Germany, posing as a Pole; obtaining Polish papers; forced labor in Frankfurt an der Oder; traveling to Berlin and Nuremberg when Polish workers became suspicious; arrest and imprisonment; beatings which resulted in his permanent hearing loss; transfer to Flossenbu?rg, then Moosach and Allach in 1943; working in a BMW factory and as a translator; clandestinely helping Jews whose conditions were worse; liberation in April 1945 by United States troops; living in Prague; emigrating to Israel in 1948; marriage; and emigrating to the United States in 1957.

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