Mitchell W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mitchell W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926. He recalls his large and close extended family; German invasion; confiscation of Jewish property resulting in loss of family income; ghettoization; working as an electrician; his father's death from starvation in April 1941; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; transfer to Mys?owice (Gu?nthergrube) after volunteering as an electrician; forced labor in coal mines; being saved from a selection by doctors in the infirmary; prisoner variety shows on Christmas and New Year; the death march in January 1945; escaping with another prisoner; arrest; imprisonment in Czechoslovakia and Vienna; and transfer to Mauthausen. Mr W. remembers the complete lack of food; eating snails and dead birds; moving to the tent camp; liberation; escaping due to his fear of being caught again by Germans; living in a displaced pserons camp; returning to ?o?dz? to seek family; fearing to reclaim family property due to antisemitism; traveling with a kibbutz to Czechoslovakia and Germany; and emigrating to the United States. He discusses his inability to enjoy anything because he lost all family with whom to share his life.

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