Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Wolf Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland, in 1923 and raised in nearby Sosnowiec. Mr. Z. recalls the town's primitive conditions; Jewish prewar social and cultural life; rapid deterioration following the German invasion; ghettoization; and the suspicions about the deportations and construction of Auschwitz. He tells of hiding; capture in a 1942 round-up; transport to Sakrau, then to Karvina?, Czechoslovakia; work as a carpenter's helper; transfer to Klettendorf in 1943; work as a farm hand; and surviving on vegetables normally fed to pigs. He describes transport to Fu?nfteichen, then to Dyhernfurth in 1944; evacuation on a death march on December 26 to Nordhausen; digging tunnels for underground factories; marching to Bergen-Belsen; conditions there leading to madness and cannibalism; and liberation by British troops. He reflects on his lengthy recuperation; finding a job and marrying in Stockholm; visiting his sole surviving sister in Poland in 1948; emigration to the United States in 1956; the importance to him of his children; and his belief that survival in the camps was based on luck, rather than cleverness.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)