William P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of William P., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1923, one of eight children in an impoverished family. He recalls German invasion; forced farm labor in 1940; assistance from his brother; returning home; incarceration in a labor camp; escape; returning to Cze?stochowa; entering the ghetto; working as a tailor; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor; liberation in 1945; recovering in Theresienstadt; returning to Cze?stochowa; hearing two brothers had survived; traveling to Warsaw, Poznan?, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna; living in Salzburg; emigration to the United States in 1949; and marriage. Mr. P. discusses the importance to his survival of luck and always obeying orders; his sense of never knowing what was happening in the camps; the deaths of many relatives during the Holocaust; fears of sharing his experiences until 1955; and his surviving brothers' lives. He shows photographs.

2 videocassettes