Richard O. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Richard O., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1920. Mr. O. remembers German invasion in September 1939; fleeing east; returning to Krako?w; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor; once refusing to work; ghettoization; training as a nurse in the Jewish hospital, then working there; hospital workers' exemption from deportation; his mother's deportation; helping a patient escape from the ghetto; transfer to P?asz?ow in February 1943; working in the hospital; public hangings; delivering medication to the Kommandant, Amon Goeth; help from an SS guard; a mass shooting of Jewish police; a forced march to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Gleiwitz in January 1945; train transport to Sachsenhausen; Czechs throwing them food; transfer to Flossenbu?rg, then a sub-camp in February 1945; deteriorating physically; refusing to work; transfer to Dachau in April 1945; a priest registering him as a Catholic; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. O. recounts recovering in an American hospital; living in a displaced persons camp; contracting tuberculosis; recovering in Davos, Switzerland; attending medical school and living in Bern for twelve years; marriage to an American; and emigration to the United States. He notes witnessing cannibalism at a camp and testifying at a German war crime trial.

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