Meyer K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Meyer K., who was born in Poland in 1920. He discusses living with his family in the Starachowice ghetto; his parents' killing during the ghetto's liquidation in October 1942; selection with his five brothers for forced labor in a munitions factory; his older brother's death; transfer with his brothers by train to Birkenau in June 1944; claiming, with one brother, that they were blacksmiths (he never saw the other two brothers again); waiting for work assignment in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); helping his brother during the death march on January 18, 1945; transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in an underground factory in Gusen; beatings and public hangings; liberation by United States troops; and their move to Linz. Mr. K. describes their search for relatives; traveling to Modena, Italy with the Jewish brigade; living with his nieces and nephews in Germany; and emigrating to Canada. He discusses the importance to his survival of luck, volunteering as a blacksmith, and being with his brother.

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