Felix K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Felix K., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1921. He recounts some Polish history; Radom's Jewish life; German occupation; formation and role of the Judenrat; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; his unsuccessful attempt to reach the Soviet zone; forced labor building fortifications on the Soviet border; transfer to Majdanek; and escape to the Radom ghetto. Mr. K. describes extreme deprivation, cruelty and killings; sneaking out of the ghetto to receive aid from a Polish doctor; deportation of ninety percent of the ghetto in July 1942, including his family (he and one brother remained); work as a car mechanic; rumors of extermination camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising; and transfer to the Szklona Street camp. He recalls deportation to Bliz?yn; reunion with his brother who helped him survive typhus; evacuation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in July 1944; the Sonderkommando revolt and hanging; his brother's transfer while Mr. K. was hospitalized (he never saw him again); the death march in January 1945; train transport to Gross Rosen, then Dachau; transport from Dachau in April; liberation from the train; and his emigration to the United States in April 1949. Mr. K. provides many specific details of life in the ghetto and concentration camps.

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