David R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Krako?w Poland in 1925, one of seven children. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; joining Akiba, a Zionist group; a brother and sister emigrating to the United States; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Szyd?owiec with his father and brothers in April 1941; obtaining false papers; posing as a non-Jew to smuggle food to his family in the Krako?w ghetto; assistance from Marek Bieberstein, the Judenrat chairman; his parents' and siblings' deportations (he never saw them again); smuggling himself into the Warsaw ghetto; escaping; observing the ghetto uprising; returning to Krako?w in 1943; a futile attempt to go to Germany as a Polish slave laborer; incarceration in Montelupich; his aborted suicide attempt; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; transfer to Warsaw with Greek and French Jews in September; clearing the ghetto rubble; public executions; a death march in 1944, then train transport to Dachau; transfer to Mu?hldorf; escaping from a train; liberation by United States troops; working in Feldafing displaced persons camp; and joining his siblings in the United States in May 1946. Mr. R. discusses his siblings' reluctance to hear his story; sharing his experiences with his children; and the importance to his survival of luck and help from other prisoners and a few non-Jews.

3 videocassettes