Norman K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Norman K., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland in 1927, the youngest of seven children. He recalls speaking Yiddish at home; learning Polish in public school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures including expulsion from school; fleeing to Wis?lica with his parents and sister in September 1942 to avoid a round-up (his married sister lived there); returning home; learning many Jews were killed locally and others deported by train; another round-up in November; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer; having to leave a week later; traveling to Wodzis?aw, his father's hometown; being smuggled by a Polish policeman to the Krako?w ghetto; separation from his parents and sister when he was sent to P?aszo?w; slave labor; beatings and executions, often by Kommandant Amon Goeth; mass shootings; transfer to Wieliczka; German Air Force soldiers speaking to him; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; a death march to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops; French inmates killing a kapo; hospitalization; going to an UNRRA camp in Italy with Berih?ah; illegal emigration to Palestine in November 1945; arrest by the British when meeting other illegal boats; and emigration to the United States in 1952. Mr. K. notes no other family members survived. He shows photographs.

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