Dov H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dov H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1913, one of six children in an orthodox family. He recounts attending cheder, yeshivas in Khust and Galanta, then a Jewish gymnasium in Brno; night work in a factory to support himself; attending an agricultural school in Tábor to prepare for emigration to Palestine; participating in Hechalutz; graduation in 1932; military draft; continuing contact with Hechalutz; discharge in 1936; returning home briefly; working in Prague; training at a kibbutz in Plzeň; military recall in 1938; his posting in Košice; his unit disbanding; returning to Prague; German invasion; moving to a Hechalutz training center; being ordered to report to the Germans in Prague; release after two weeks; helping to organize illegal emigration to Palestine and Zionist agricultural centers; working with Jacob Edelstein, a Zionist leader; arranging with him to move his Hechalutz groups to Theresienstadt; being housed together; seeking labor assignments to gain knowledge to benefit the group; their Sabbath and holiday observations; marriage in 1943; the arrival and departure of 1,200 children from Białystok; meetings with Edelstein, now head of the Aeltestenrat in Theresienstadt, and Fredy Hirsch; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit and propaganda film; deportation with his group by passenger train to Auschwitz/Birkenau; their decision to protect each other; a German shooting his seat mate; slave labor digging a trench; brutal killing prisoners; his group rescuing children who had hidden in latrines; encountering his brother who gave him food and clothing, and advised him to take any transport out; and the Sonderkommando uprising.

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