David K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of David K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. He describes the rich and cultured Jewish prewar life in Krako?w; his happy childhood; German occupation in 1939; his uncle's unsuccessful attempts to help his family emigrate through Brussels to Uruguay; fleeing to Cie?z?kowice; his deportation to a labor camp in Pustko?w; his shock at the brutal shooting of a prisoner; forced labor building sewers; observing Jewish holidays; his sickness and hospitalization; returning to Cie?z?kowice; imprisonment with his father in Tarno?w; returning to Cie?z?kowice; and his deportation to a labor camp in Mielec (he never saw his family again). Mr. K. relates receiving a last letter from his father; slave labor in a Heinkel airplane factory; attending a seder; hearing about Sobibor and not believing it; transfer to Wieliczka, then Flossenbu?rg; transfer to Hersbruck, then back to Flossenbu?rg; working as a mechanic in a privileged group; aid from a German foreman; hunger and beatings; evacuation in cattle cars to Schwarzenfeld; a death march; liberaiton by United States troops; transfer to the Weiden displaced persons camp; moving to Weidenau; marriage; Jewish community life in Weidenau; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. K. shows ritual objects which he and his father had buried and his uncle recovered after the war.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)