Salek H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Salek H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. He recalls his tightly-knit, observant, Jewish neighborhood; working in a factory; German invasion; fleeing to ?o?dz? with his family; joining the Polish army; serving in an anti-aircraft battery; bringing an injured soldier to Warsaw; the siege of Warsaw; incarceration in a German POW camp; escape; joining his family in ?o?dz?; ghettoization; working as a streetcar driver; smuggling rotting food by mixing it with coal; driving Polish civilians to work in the ghetto; frequent deportations and arrivals of Jews from other areas; transporting Jews to the railroad for deportation; his father's death; his own deportation on the last transport to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); transfer to factories in Hannover; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; traveling to Sweden via Buchenwald and Hamburg; and emigration to the United States. Mr. H. discusses the Judenrat and Jewish police in the ?o?dz? ghetto and his fear that people someday will not believe "it" happened.

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