Yitzhak F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yitzhak F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1916, the oldest of five children. He recalls his father's sock business; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw with his father; returning to Łódź; his mother and sisters going to Warsaw (he never saw them again); ghettoization; forced labor; functions of the Judenrat; deportations; encountering Ḥayim Rumkowski; moving to avoid deportations; arrest; deportation to Częstochowa, then Skarżysko three weeks later; slave labor in camp A; transfer to Częstochowa; slave labor in the HASAG Pelzery munitions factory; a severe beating; transfer to Buchenwald; forming a supportive group with friends from Łódź; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Weimar; train transfer to Theresienstadt during which most died; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; hospitalization in Theresienstadt and Litoměřice until autumn; assistance from the Joint; traveling to Łódź seeking relatives; learning no one survived; living in displaced persons camps in Kassel and Bad Reichenhall; marriage; and emigration to Israel in 1949. Mr. F. discusses camp and ghetto conditions; always believing he would survive; numbness; observing Yom Kippur in camp once; discussing his experiences with his grandchildren more than his children; and testifying at the trial of Günther Fuchs in Hannover.

6 videocassettes