Max K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Max K., who was born in Cernau?t?i, Romania in 1937. He recalls Soviet occupation; the outbreak of war; a forced march, with his parents and grandmother, to the Mohyliv-Podil?s?kyi? ghetto in 1941; ghettoization; pervasive hunger and lack of sanitation; their escape with assistance from a Ukrainian farmer in 1942; hiding with his parents and grandmother at the farmer's house until 1944; returning to the ghetto with his parents; and liberation by Soviet partisans. Mr. K. recounts fleeing from Mohyliv with his parents and grandmother; public execution of German soldiers by partisans; walking to Ploies?ti, then moving to Bucharest with his parents; illegally walking through Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1948 to get to Rome; emigrating to Canada; attending school and learning a new language; marriage; his parents' deaths; and emigration with his family to the United States. He discusses memories of Romanies in the ghetto; fears of Germans when hiding on the farm; and the importance to their survival of luck and his father's skills and ingenuity. He shows family photographs.

3 videocassettes