David K. Holocaust testimony

Video testimony of David K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of six children. He recalls moving to Gdan?sk in 1928; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; pervasive antisemitic harassment; their return to ?o?dz?; moving to Radogoszcz; German invasion; traveling to Warsaw; the siege; returning to Radogoszcz; traveling to Warsaw with a neighbor; returning to ?o?dz?; public hangings; joining his mother in the Krako?w ghetto; moving to Rzeszo?w; posing as a non-Jew and selling merchandise outside the city; illegally entering the Soviet-occupied area from ?an?cut with help from a non-Jew; brief imprisonment in Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; a three-month hospitalization; joining his brother in the Donets Basin; working in the mines; moving to Kiev and Bila T?S?erkva; attending mechanics school; German invasion; evacuation to Kharkov and Kui?byshev; working in a munitions factory for almost six years; ruse conscription into the Soviet and Soviet-commanded Polish Army; assignment to a forced labor camp; escape and re-arrest; release in June 1946; returning to ?o?dz?; learning that two brothers had survived; living in Paris for a year; and emigrating to the United States in 1947. Mr. K. notes not sharing his experiences with his four sons, but discussing them with his grandchildren. He shows photographs and documents.

4 videocassettes