Witold F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Witold F., a non-Jew born in Pleszew, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending school in Chorzo?w, a military academy in Warsaw, and teaching in Silesia; German invasion; military service in Krako?w; being captured by Germans in Tomaszow Lubelski; attempting escape to Czechoslovakia using false papers; incarceration in Krako?w's Montelupich prison; and inclusion in the second transport to Auschwitz in 1940. Mr. F. describes camp life in detail; friends helping him to obtain a job, which included access to many areas; receiving and writing letters home (he shows them); observing construction of the crematoria and gassing of Soviet POWs in 1941; clandestine Catholic services; Maximilian Kolbe volunteering to replace another man to be executed; organization of the prisoner underground; visits by Eichmann and Himmler and the activities of Drs. Mengele and Dering; the Sonderkommando uprising; transfer to Sachsenhausen and Wanzleben; and liberation from a death march. He recounts living in UNRRA's Schwa?bisch Gmu?nd displaced persons camp; marriage in 1945; and emigration from France to Ecuador, then the United States. He discusses continuing nightmares and war crimes trials that resulted in light sentences and acquittals, and shows sketches done by a friend in Auschwitz and family photographs.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)