Karl S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Karl S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recalls attending Jewish and public schools; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish regulations and violence; his father being killed in a round-up in November 1939; his mother's job in a hospital; attending clandestine schools; ghettoization; forced labor in a shoe factory; hiding during the children's round-up; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in summer 1944; assignment to the former Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Wu?stegiersdorf in November; slave labor digging trenches; escaping a mass shooting by pretending to be dead; finding another survivor (he soon bled to death); escaping; being returned to the camp when a farmer reported him; assignment transporting and burying corpses; liberation by Soviet troops in May; hospitalization; returning to ?o?dz?; learning his mother had been killed; attending school; escaping to Paris in 1948; and emigrating to Canada to join an uncle. Mr. S. discusses his relatives treating him like a son; marriage; establishing a successful business; and sharing his stories with his daughters when they were grown.

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