Marian F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied L?viv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtaining false papers from a non-Jew for him and his brother, hoping to escape; participating in the 1943 ghetto uprising; deportation with his brother to Majdanek; public hangings; pointless slave labor; beatings resulting in permanent injuries, for which he receives reparation payments; avoiding selections with assistance from others; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; helping his brother; assistance from a Polish supervisor; his former professor sending food, clothing, and money through the supervisor; transfer to Buchenwald, then Schleiben in summer 1944; slave labor in a munitions factory; assistance from a German supervisor; sabotaging their work; transfer to Bautzen; a death march to Mikula?s?ovice; abandonment by the guards; and liberation by Polish troops on May 8, 1945. Mr. F. notes many Jews and non-Jews who helped him survive, and sending his former professor and German supervisor money from the United States. He shows photographs and documents.

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