Marcel W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Marcel W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. He describes his family's move to France in 1931 due to antisemitism; participating in scouts and Zionist activities; working with his father as a watchmaker; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; incarceration with his family in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver in July 1942; walking out with his sister; returning, unable to abandon his parents; transfer to Pithiviers; organizing the children; deportation with his brother and father to Birkenau (he never saw his mother and sister again); assignment with his brother to the mason's school; his brother's death from a beating; and transfer to Auschwitz as a watchmaker with his father. Mr. W. recalls his father's selection for death; staying in the infirmary; his friend's assistance; non-Jews who shared food with him; transfer to a munitions factory in Zgoda (S?wie?toch?owice); slowing down production; telling French non-Jews about Birkenau, and, through them, sending letters to his fiancee (he reads from them); transfer to Buna/Monowitz in November 1944; public hangings; hospitalization during evacuation in January 1945, eight days before liberation by Soviet troops; living in Krako?w until April; returning to Paris; and his marriage. He discusses the differences between Jews and non-Jews in the camps.

3 videocassettes