Jack K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Poland in 1925. Mr. K. recounts German invasion; deportation with his brother to Gross-Masselwitz; slave labor; a German anti-Nazi guard suggesting he damage goods on the loading dock; sharing food with his brother; burying dead prisoners in the Wroc?aw Jewish cemetery; transfer with his brother to Klettendorf; an SS man from his hometown protecting him and his brother; transfer to Gross-Rosen; a public hanging; transfer to another camp; a death march; liberation by United States troops in Feldafing; his brother's return to Poland; traveling to Munich; working in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; reunion with his older brother; learning his father was alive; returning home with two friends; Poles killing his friends; fleeing; reunion with his father in Germany; returning to Garmisch; his father's marriage; living in Leipheim displaced persons camp; working for the Irgun in Paris and Marseille; smuggling weapons from Rome; illegal emigration to Palestine; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; escape and capture; imprisonment; assistance from Golda Meir; release; joining the Israeli military; marriage; his son's birth; and joining his father, uncle, and brothers in the United States. Mr. K. discusses health problems resulting from his experiences; his fragile emotional state; and his daughter's death at age twenty. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Jack, -- 1925-
- Meir, Golda, -- 1898-1978.
Corporate Bodies
- Irgun tsevaĘži leĘžumi.
- Leipheim (Displaced persons camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Sabotage.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Marseille (France)
- Paris (France)
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
- Klettendorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Cyprus.
- Rome (Italy)
- Poland.
- Feldafing (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat