Jacob H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jacob H., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in approximately 1924, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's death a month prior to his bar mitzvah; German invasion; fleeing with his father by train to Krako?w, then walking east; their return home; forced labor cleaning barracks, then at German police headquarters; two German soldiers offering him papers as a non-Jew; his father's refusal to prevent their separation; moving with his father to Chrzano?w in early 1941 with assistance from a non-Jewish friend; deportation in his father's place to Wiesau; slave labor building roads, then as a bricklayer; transfer to Sakrau, another camp, then Klettendorf; assignment to a farm; obtaining extra food; transfer to Freiburg; a German worker leaving bread for him daily for six months; transfer to Waldenburg; obtaining extra food as a bricklayer; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; returning home briefly; reunion with a sister in Germany (his only surviving family); working for UNRRA; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. H. discusses the role of the Judenrat in Os?wie?cim; remaining with one friend throughout his experiences; learning the farm where he worked was owned by Erhard Milch and corresponding with him; visiting Os?wie?cim in 1979; transferring his grandfather's gravestone to the United States; and attending survivor gatherings. He shows photographs.

3 videocassettes