Solomon H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Solomon H., who was born in Wielun?, Poland in 1913. He recounts the deaths of his father and brother; a sister and brother emigrating to France; marriage in 1938; German invasion; fleeing; being shot; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, then ?o?dz?; reunion with his wife; returning home; ghettoization; having his wife smuggled to the Cze?stochowa ghetto when she became pregnant (their son did not survive long); escaping to join her during the ghetto's liquidation; assignment to HASAG-Pelzery; a privileged position as a foreman; arrival of Jews from ?o?dz?; communicating with his sister in ?o?dz? to volunteer for the next group (she did and was sent to a death camp); remediating a factory production problem; escaping with his wife in January 1945; hiding with a Polish woman; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Wielun?; establishing a business under the Soviets using false papers as a non-Jew; escaping when his arrest was imminent; living in Munich and Bad Wo?rishofen; his daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. H. discusses testifying at the Frankfurt war crime trials; refusing to testify against the German who had saved him and his wife; and blaming himself for his sister's death.

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