Jack M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jack M., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic harassment in public school; learning to be a tailor; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to a labor camp in 1941; transfer to another camp; return home; escaping from the town's last deportation in 1943; returning to the labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor; hospitalization for an injury; assistance from a prisoner doctor in avoiding selection; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Gleiwitz, Oranienburg, Flossenbu?rg, then Plattling in winter 1945; Allied bombings; escaping with three friends from a death march; capture; incarceration in Dachau; liberation by United States troops; and living with his friends in Vienna. Mr. M. speaks about learning his parents had been killed; the importance to his survival of being a tailor (he received extra food and privileges in the camps); and difficulty believing he lived through his experiences. He shows a document.

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