Mayer B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mayer B., who was born in approximately 1921 and lived in Krako?w, Poland. He describes attending public school; pervasive antisemitism; active participation in Akiva; German invasion; his family selling their belongings to get food; forced labor; ghettoization; transfer to a labor camp at the airport (his parents and brothers remained in the ghetto); transfer to Schindler's factory; transfer to P?aszo?w, then Mauthausen, in 1944; slave labor in a quarry; transfer a month later to Linz III-Kleinmu?nchen; working in a tank factory; happiness at Allied bombings; working with Russian, French, and American POWs; liberation in May 1945; hospitalization; living in a displaced persons camp near Linz; assistance from UNRRA; working for the Joint in Linz; attending the Dachau trial as a potential witness (he did not testify); and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. B. discusses losing hope in the camps; attributing his survival to luck; not feeling defined by his Judaism as he did before the war; not sharing his experiences; and frequent nightmares.

2 videocassettes