Fred B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. He recalls attending Jewish school; non-Jewish neighbors being prohibited from playing with him; his father's and brother's expulsion to Poland; glass-strewn streets following Kristallnacht; registration for a kindertransport (he never went); joining his father and brother in Chrzano?w in April 1939; fleeing during German invasion; returning to Chrzano?w when overtaken by Germans; antisemitic measures including forced labor; his brother being taken in a round-up; hiding during round-ups; working for his father's friend delivering beverages; smuggling food; public hangings of smugglers; encountering his brother in a nearby camp during a delivery; arranging for food, clothing, and medicine from the Jewish community in Chrzano?w for the camp prisoners; hiding with assistance from his German boss during the round-up of Chrzano?w's Jews in 1942; surrendering to the police; deportation to Blechhammer; transfer to Faulbru?ck; slave labor; transfer; overcoming a severe illness; working in a Krupps factory; sabotaging the work; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a privileged assignment to Canada Kommando due to a family friend; receiving food from a cousin; and being sent to the infirmary.

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