Roman F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Roman F., who was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland in 1928, an only child. He recounts his father's sense of both Polish and Jewish identity (he served in World War I); attending a Jewish school; participating in Maccabi; attending a Betar summer camp; traveling to Chełm immediately before the German invasion, then to to Zdolbunov; Soviet occupation; moving to Lʹviv; attending a Soviet school; obtaining false papers as Protestants; German invasion; his mother working as a secretary and his father on a farm; fleeing to Kraków when their discovery was imminent; continuing to live as non-Jews; working as a delivery boy; a village farmer hiding him and his parents for several months; returning to Kraków; smuggling his grandparents out of the ghetto to his aunt in Słomniki (they were all killed); arrest with his parents as Jews in 1943; transfer to the ghetto, then his father's to Płaszów; watching his mother being beaten to death by a German, William Kunde; slave labor in a factory; escaping from being shot by the Kommandant, Amon Goeth; transfer with his father to Starachowice; his father's death; being wounded while escaping with a group; finding partisans; leaving to clean his wound; and hearing the partisans kill the other escapees.

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