Chaim D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Chaim D., who was born in Neresnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic harassment; his father's deportation (they never saw him again); his siblings moving to Budapest; assistance from the Joint; German invasion in spring 1944; his siblings return; deportation with his family to the Mátészalka ghetto, then five weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his brother from his mother and sisters; transfer to Buchenwald a few days later; slave labor constructing a Brabag factory in Zeitz; Allied bombings; a privileged assignment outside the camp (they could obtain extra food); rabbis leading prayers; Czech and Italian prisoners of war sharing Red Cross packages with them; deteriorating conditions with increased bombings; separation from his brother when he was returned to Buchenwald due to his weakness; hospitalization; and a Czech prisoner-doctor caring for his group of young people, then hiding them in a brothel during evacuation.

10 videocassettes