Simon D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Simon D., who was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia in 1892. He recalls moving to ?o?dz? as a child; studying in Moscow; returning to ?o?dz? in 1923; marriage; working as an accountant for the Bund; increasing antisemitism from 1933 onward; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw, then Bia?ystok (in the Soviet zone) with his son while his wife and daughter remained in ?o?dz?; working as a factory accountant in Orsha; and arranging for his wife and daughter to join them in December 1939. Mr. D. recounts his denunciation and arrest as a Bund member in 1941; interrogation and release; evacuation to I?oshkar-Ola after the German invasion of the Soviet Union; working as a commune bookkeeper, accountant and instructor for the commune district office; moving to Proskurov, Ukraine with his family after its liberation in 1944; learning of the extermination of the Jews; moving to ?o?dz?; discovering the murder of his family and the city's Jews; and living six months in a displaced persons camp in Germany. He describes his sense that Germans pretended ignorance of the persecutions and Holocaust; emigration to Mexico in 1947; and to San Antonio, Texas in 1974.

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