George W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of George W., who was born in Tarnogro?d, Poland in 1921. He recounts moving to L'viv when he was two; his mother's death when he was six; attending commercial school; working in his father's dairy business; antisemitism; membership in Betar; seeing Vladimir Jabotinsky twice; working as a diamond setter; Russian occupation; German invasion in June 1941; seeing bodies of massacred Jews; deportation to a nearby camp; slave labor building roads; cruel German and Ukrainian guards; contracting typhoid; escaping after two years; briefly hiding with a Ukrainian family, then a Polish man, who knew where his father was hidden; hiding with his father for a year; liberation by Soviet troops; his father's unsuccessful attempt to reclaim his property; working for the Soviet Army; moving to Lublin; marriage to a survivor; living in Munich for three years; and emigrating to Canada. Mr. W. notes his survival was due to luck and discusses conveying his love of learning and tolerance for others to his children.

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