Martin K. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
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People
- K., Martin, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Budzyń (Concentration camp)
- Wieliczka (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke.
Subjects
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Mass killings.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- Pasing (Germany)
- Hrubieszów (Poland)
- Italy.
- Hattersheim (Germany)
- Mielec (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat