Martin K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2241
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Martin K., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1925. He recalls his father's death in 1939; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation (one sister left with Soviet troops); German return; mass killings; forced labor; hiding with his family in a bunker during a round-up in fall 1942; leaving after a local woman discovered them (he never saw his mother and siblings again); hiding on a farm; returning to Hrubieszo?w; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; seeing corpses everywhere; months of forced labor in a burial detail; transfer to Budzyn? in October 1943, then Mielec; working at the Heinkel factory; transfer to Wieliczka, then Flossenbu?rg via Auschwitz; a whipping from which he still suffers; the death march in April 1945; and liberation by United States troops in Pasing. Mr. K. recounts staying with a German family; relocation to Hattersheim; working for U.S. occupation forces in Frankfurt; living in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; communication from his sister who was in Israel; preparing for emigration to Israel in Italy; emigration to the United States in 1947; marriage; visiting Poland with his wife and daughter; and continuing contact with the Pole who helped him. He shows photographs and documents.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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