Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in Zshet?l, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus) in 1915. He recalls attending yeshiva; being drafted into the Polish military at age eighteen; discharge two years later; a brother's emigration to Canada; military recall in March 1939; serving in P?ock and P?on?sk; German invasion; retreating to Warsaw, then Modlin; imprisonment in a stalag; separation of the Jewish POWs; forced labor in Bia?a Podlaska in 1940; transfer to Ko?nskowola, then in August 1941 to Budzyn?; deciding not to join a camp resistance group; slave labor in Wieliczka in 1943; disinterring and burning corpses in P?aszo?w; nightmares; deportation to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Schindler's factory in Brne?nec; sabotaging production with Schindler's complicity; and hanging a Nazi prior to Soviet liberation in May 1945. Mr. G. recounts learning his family had been killed; traveling to Lublin, then Prague; attempting to emigrate to Palestine from Germany with assistance from Haganah; living in Zeilsheim; communication from his brother in Canada; and emigration to Canada in May 1947. Mr. G. notes his marriages to Christians, one prior to the war (his wife and children survived) and one in Canada, with whom he had two children. He shows photographs and Zshet?l's yizkor book.

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