Roman S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Roman S., who was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls participating in sports events sponsored by Maccabi; a strong sense of Jewish community; German invasion; forced transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto in early 1940; deportation to Schwiebus in December; forced labor doing highway construction; transfer to Grunow-Spiegelberge, Fuerstenberg, then Auschwitz in May 1943; his assignment to undress corpses; transfer to I. G. Farben at Buna/Monowitz; assistance from British POWs; transfer to a Farben factory near Krako?w; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; brief stays in Mauthausen and Buchenwald; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in February; digging mass graves; being shot by the Kommandant, Josef Kramer; medical assistance from a German doctor; and liberation by British troops. Mr. S. discusses recovering in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; testifying against Kramer and in favor of the physician who helped him at a trial in Lu?neburg; meeting General Bernard Montgomery; marriage in 1946; speaking to Marlene Dietrich concerning his wish to emigrate; and emigration with his wife and daughter to the United States in 1949.

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