Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his strict Orthodox family; attending Jewish and secular schools; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; his father's escape to the Soviet zone; fleeing to Koluszki with his mother; returning to ?o?dz?; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; working as a courier for the Jewish council; deportation to Auschwitz in fall 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); selections in Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; sharing food and helping other prisoners; the death march to Allach; and his liberation from Dachau by United States troops. Mr. G. describes traveling to Munich with friends; an unsuccessful attempt to contact relatives in Israel; living in the Jewish community in Frankfurt with friends, then in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp until 1948; learning diamond cutting in Belgium; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. He emphasizes his strong faith and support for Jewish education and Israel.

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