Boris Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Boris Z., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1926 and raised in Kaunas. He recalls the rich Jewish culture in Kaunas; anti-Semitic incidents; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his family after the German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; slave labor building an airport; a selection on October 26th, followed by mass killings in the Ninth Fort on October 28th; briefly working as a courier; digging trenches in Marijampole?; returning to Kaunas in 1944; volunteering to enter a camp upon the ghetto's liquidation; deportation with his family to Kaufering; and his mother's removal from the train. Mr. Z. describes building an underground factory; assistance from a German guard; separation from his father and brother; liberation from Dachau by United States troops; reunion with his brother and father in June 1945; separation from them in Chemnitz when he was drafted into the Soviet army; contacting his parents and brother in West Germany; arrest with his mother; release from the Soviet camps in 1955; contacting his father and brother in the United States; reunion with his brother in 1964 in Kaunas; his mother's emigration to the United States in 1967; and his emigration to Israel in 1990. He reads his Yiddish poem about the Holocaust.

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