Daniel I. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Daniel I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1932, an only child. He tells of his father's career as a writer and newspaper editor; his mother's as a teacher; an uncle, four aunts, and his grandmother emigrating to Palestine prior to his birth; German invasion in September 1939; destruction of their home by German bombs; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Białystok; moving to Moscow in summer 1940; attending school; visiting his aunt in Leningrad (presently Saint Petersburg); moving when his father found employment in Kaunas; attending a Yiddish school; German invasion; ghettoization; separation from his parents in a ghetto-wide selection in October 1941; sneaking back to them, saving himself from the mass killing of thousands; hiding with his parents during a round-up in 1942; registering his birth date as 1929 and learning carpentry to avoid deportations; opting to be deported with his father, rather than his mother when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1944; arrival at Landsberg, then Dachau the next day; deportation by train a week later; escaping through the window; hiding in a nearby forest; giving himself a Polish name; telling a farmer his parents had perished in the recent Warsaw uprising; the farmer bringing him to another farmer in Lędziny for employment; and observing the Auschwitz smokestacks en route.

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