Moshe K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Moshe K., who was born in Shereshevo, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1924. He recounts attending cheder and a Tarbut school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism; his father's arrest for performing a kosher slaughter when it became illegal; Soviet occupation; German invasion; his father's execution; forced relocation through several towns to the Pruzh?a?ny ghetto; the Judenrat doing its best under the circumstances to allocate resources and forced labor fairly; forced labor outside the ghetto; participating in the ghetto underground; his family's round-up and deportation (he never saw them again); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; beatings; slave labor in a tailor shop; a fellow prisoner sharing a lemon when he was ill; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; English POWs sharing Red Cross packages; a death march to Gleiwitz, Langenbielau, and other places; shootings of many prisoners; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Katowice and Warsaw with assistance from the Red Cross; marriage in 1946; the births of his children; his son's emigration to the United States in 1979; joining him with his wife and daughter in 1987; and his wife's recent death. He discusses relations between national groups in the camps and shows photographs.

3 videocassettes