Mayer Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mayer Z., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1912, one of five children in an impoverished family. He recalls working as a tailor from age eleven; living in ?o?dz?; starting a business with his brother-in-law in Piotrko?w; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; escaping to the Soviet zone in December; encountering his wife in Brest; moving to Hantsavichy; arrest with his brother-in-law; imprisonment in Luninet?s? and Pinsk; deportation to a Soviet concentration camp; forced labor for a year; transfer to Solikamsk after German invasion; release after a few weeks; traveling to Tashkent; the births of two children; enlisting in the Soviet military; returning to his family due to illness; traveling to ?o?dz? after the war; living in Szczecin; learning no family survived; smuggling themselves to Berlin; living in Landsberg and Schlachtensee displaced persons camps; emigration to the United States in 1951; difficulties establishing himself; and gratitude for his present life (he has four children and seven grandchildren).

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