Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Ganichi, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1923. He recalls attending school in Sighet; cordial relations with non-Jews; belonging to Betar; his sister's and brother's emigration to Palestine; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Mukacheve, Kisvr?da, and Korice; returning home; learning his other sister and her children had been shot; he and his parents hiding during a round-up with help from their maid's husband; the same man surrendering them; ghettoization in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); transfer to Buna/Monowitz; a Polish Jew advising him to volunteer as a machinist, which saved his life; public hangings; hospitalization; treatment by a Jewish prisoner doctor; remaining with two friends who were brothers; sharing extra food with them; another friend praying daily; Allied bombings; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; Czechs throwing them food en route; and a death march to Dachau.

2 videocassettes