Martin B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Martin B., who was born in Za?luzs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He describes his family farm; their orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; deportation to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; briefly staying with his father; transfer as a slave laborer to coal mines; the death march to Gliwice; assistance from a prisoner when he could not walk; train transport to Nordhausen; forced labor in a V2 factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; some prisoners taking revenge; leaving with friends; replacing their camp uniforms with German uniforms; brief detention by Allied forces as German soldiers; staying near Hannover; attempting to find his family through the Red Cross; locating two aunts; registering for transfer to Sweden; living at a refugee camp, then in Go?teborg; attending school; moving to Mo?lnlycke with his aunts; emigrating to the United States in 1948; reunion with his sister in 1949; being drafted in 1951; serving in Germany; marriage; and returning to the United States. Mr. B. discusses his career with Fortunoff's and his reluctance to visit Za?luzs.

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