Jack B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. He recalls religious family life; singing in the Norzyk Synagogue choir under several famous cantors; playing soccer for Jewish sports groups; working as a furrier from the age of thirteen on; conscription into the Polish army when Germany invaded; returning to Warsaw after defeat; ghettoization; the last synagogue service at which Cantor Gershon Sirota sang; selling fur clothing to feed his family; sleeping in a bunker to avoid deportation; and the disappearance of his parents and others until only he and his brother remained. Mr. B. describes their underground fighting group; ambushing Germans; forced surrender; separation from his brother at the train station (he never saw him again); deportation to Auschwitz; forced labor; transfer to Poniatowa, then Majdanek; transport to Buchenwald in 1945; Czechs throwing food into the open cars; being forced to watch hangings; and a severe beating for forgetting to remove his cap. He relates liberation by American troops; living in the Landsberg refugee camp, then Munich; acquiring a fur shop; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949.

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