William U. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of William U., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (later southeastern Poland) in 1913. He describes two older brothers emigrating, one prior to his birth; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; joining Zionist groups; attending school in L?viv and Warsaw; teaching; Polish military draft; German invasion; being wounded; hospitalization; German takeover of the military hospital; release after three months; traveling to the Soviet zone; arrest in Przemys?l; release when his identity was verified; returning home; teaching in L?viv; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; a non-Jewish former student providing him with documents as a non-Jew; helping Jewish friends hide; traveling to Legionowo, then Warsaw; returning to L?viv; hiding in his former building superintendent's cellar; capture; incarceration in Janowska; escape the next day; hiding again; liberation by Soviet troops; a Pole shooting him after learning he was Jewish; Metropolitan Andrii? Sheptyt?s?k?yi? providing medical help; finding a niece; traveling to Berlin, then ?o?dz?; living in Schlachtensee displaced persons camp; assistance from the Joint; and emigrating to the United States in 1946 (he met his brother). Mr. U. discusses wanting to help others since so many helped him survive and the importance of providing a Jewish heritage to his daughters. He shows photographs.

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