Ben G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1925. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; the 1939 influx of German Jewish refugees; German invasion in September; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; attending a clandestine school; forced labor; deportations; exemption from deportation due to his job; his father's deportation; separation from his mother and siblings when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Cze?stochowa, then Buchenwald; transfer to Dora in January 1945; an assignment burning corpses; public hangings; transfer to Nordhausen in March; and escaping after an Allied bombing. Mr. G. describes liberation by United States troops; remaining in a displaced persons camp; learning three of his sisters had survived; their reunion; learning his mother had perished in Auschwitz; returning with his sisters to Piotrko?w; antisemitic violence; the four of them fleeing to ?o?dz?; joining a kibbutz; illegally traveling to Bratislava; abuse by Polish border guards at Nacpolsk; assisting others to illegally leave Poland; emigration to Israel in 1950; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. G. discusses publishing a bulletin and editing a book about Piotrko?w. He shows photographs.

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