Sam K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sam K., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1915. He describes his Hasidic family; his father's death in 1924; his hardware store; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; his brother's murder in a mass shooting; avoiding deportations in 1941 and 1942; factory work; illegal prayer groups in their house; separation from his mother during the final deportation in February 1943; traveling to Sosnowiec as a non-Jew; hiding with his sister's family; ghettoization in the Srodula section; escaping during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943; hiding, with assistance from a Polish woman, in a bunker with his niece and her aunt; using false papers to travel to Otmucho?w as a Polish forced laborer; working at an ammunition factory with a variety of POWs; arrest; imprisonment in Nysa; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; transfer to Niederorschel in August 1944; a prisoner baking matzah for them during Pesach; escaping on April 1, 1945; hiding with assistance from a German supervisor; liberation by United States troops on April 11; returning to Chrzano?w; living in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1947. Mr. K. notes sharing his experiences with his daughters. He shows photographs.

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