David K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Video testimony of David K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls moving to Gdan?sk in 1928; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; pervasive antisemitic harassment; their return to ?o?dz?; moving to Radogoszcz; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; the siege; returning to Radogoszcz; traveling to Warsaw with a neighbor; returning to ?o?dz?; public hangings; joining his mother in the Krako?w ghetto; moving to Rzeszo?w; posing as a non-Jew and selling merchandise outside the city; illegally entering the Soviet-occupied area from ?an?cut with help from a non-Jew; brief imprisonment in Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; a three-month hospitalization; joining his brother in the Donets Basin; working in the mines; moving to Kiev and Bila T?S?erkva; attending mechanics school; German invasion; evacuation to Kharkov and Kui?byshev; working in a munitions factory for almost six years; ruse conscription into the Soviet and Soviet-commanded Polish Army; assignment to a forced labor camp; escape and re-arrest; release in June 1946; returning to ?o?dz?; learning that two brothers had survived; living in Paris for a year; and emigrating to the United States in 1947. Mr. K. notes not sharing his experiences with his four sons, but discussing them with his grandchildren. He shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., David, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Siege, 1939.
- Radogoszcz (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Poland.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Bila T︠S︡erkva (Ukraine)
- Donets Basin (Ukraine and Russia)
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Łańcut (Poland)
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Kuĭbyshev (Novosibirskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
- Kharkiv (Ukraine)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Paris (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat