Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his secular home; German invasion; moving to his father's hometown of Radoszyce; difficulties adjusting to orthodoxy and shtetl life; their return to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; his father's privileged status as a factory director; horrendous physical and psychological effects of the starvation; escaping a round-up due to his father's position; deportation to Auschwitz with his family in August 1944; separation from his brother and mother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; pretending to be older to avoid selection; the smell of burning flesh; their transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; transfer to Dachau; his father's death; transfer to several camps; escape from a train with his uncle; capture; incarceration in Landsberg; liberation by United States troops; his uncle's death; recovering in Gauting tuberculosis sanitarium, then an ORT facility; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses becoming hardened from his experience, but teaching his children to care for others and take moral stances; his stroke at age forty-one which doctors ascribe to his camp experiences; reluctance to share his experiences with his children; and testifying at the trial of Kaufering's Kommandant. He shows photographs and documents.

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