Willy F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Willy F., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1928. He describes his parents' move to a small village to run a business; remaining with his grandparents and siblings so they could attend Jewish schools; his parents' return due to antisemitic violence; their move to Sosnowiec in 1936; traveling to Dzia?oszyce with his grandmother in 1939; German invasion; food shortages; his parents' and brother's return (his sister remained in Sosnowiec); hiding with his family during a round-up; joining an uncle in Pinczo?w; briefly returning to Dzia?oszyce; fleeing to Wodzis?aw, then the Krako?w ghetto; slave labor with his father and cousin doing construction; transfer to P?aszo?w; his father's death in May 1943; he and his cousin helping each other when they had typhus; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; turning yellow from the picric acid; hiding to avoid difficult labor; transfer to Buchenwald; hospitalization; assistance from a prisoner physician and Norwegian prisoners; liberation by United States troops; transfer to an OSE home in Ecouis via Metz and Paris; and learning his mother, brother, and sister and her child did not survive. Mr. F. discusses camp hierarchies; surviving due to help from others and "stealing"; annual visits with his wife, son, and grandchildren to his cousin in Israel; and visiting Poland several times. He sings camp songs.

3 videocassettes