Zvi N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Zvi N., who was born in 1924, and raised in Tyszowce, Poland, one of two children. He recounts his father's death when he was two; moving to his Hasidic grandfather's farm; attending cheder and a Polish school; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; the German return; moving to Komarów; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a German cutting off his grandfather's beard; forced labor; escaping with his sister and others to the forest; separation from the group (his sister remained); assistance from a Polish friend; locating a group of Jews, including his mother and uncle; finding his sister; joining partisans led by an escaped Soviet POW; a German attack in which his mother was killed; he and his sister feigning death; saving a wounded friend with help from a Pole; another German attack in which his sister was killed; finding Polish partisans; killing a policeman as a test to join them; fleeing from a German ambush (his uncle was captured, tortured, and killed); traveling with his uncle's widow to the Hrubieszów ghetto with assistance from a Pole; relatively benign conditions under the Jewish head, Dr. O. (HVT-943); escaping during the ghetto's liquidation; returning; deportation to Budzyń; slave labor with Soviet prisoners of war; digging an escape tunnel with others; transfer to Mielec in 1944; slave labor in an airplane factory; all the prisoners being sadistically tattooed with nails after an escape attempt; and transfer to Wieliczka, Flossenbürg, then Leitmeritz.

7 videocassettes