Roman B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Roman B., who was born in L?viv, Poland in 1929. He recalls living in Katowice; his father's successful practice as an eye surgeon; attending Polish public school; his family's strong Polish identity; visiting his wealthy grandparents in Pidhai?t?s?i; assisting German Jewish refugees in 1938; visiting his grandparents in summer 1939 with his mother; his father's recall into the Polish military (he ended up in England); Soviet occupation; his grandparents' and relatives' deportation east as capitalists (it saved their lives); attending Soviet schools; moving to L?viv in 1940; German invasion; returning to Pidhai?t?s?i; his aunt obtaining false papers; Ukrainians hiding them in the hospital during round-ups; assistance from the Polish underground; moving to Warsaw with his mother using false papers; surgeries to conceal his circumcision (it failed) and shorten his nose; living with a Polish family, then in a home for children of Polish officers; observing the Warsaw ghetto uprising; moving to orphanages in Jo?zefo?w, then Miedzezyn; occasional visits from his mother; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with his mother; moving to Katowice; joining his father in England in 1946; living in Scotland; his mother's arrival a year later; becoming an economist; marriage in 1958; and his daughter's birth. Mr. B. notes that the Holocaust is a vast area of incomprehension to him, in terms of a philosophy which condoned mass murder.

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