Lipa T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lipa T. who was born in Dukla, Poland in 1926. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic violence; attending Polish school and cheder; enjoying Shabbat and holiday observances; his parents both working; their relative affluence; his father's military draft; German invasion; forced relocation with his mother and sister to Rymano?w; returning home; finding all their possessions looted by neighbors; forced quarry labor; his father's return after Germany invaded the Soviet Union; being sent to Krako?w with the quarry workers (he never saw his family again); slave labor constructing buildings in Wola Duchachka; transfer to P?aszo?w; assistance from a Jewish doctor when he had typhus; random shootings; developing "cunning and survival skills" despite feeling he was in a "soul-destroying place"; transfer to Cze?stochowa, then Skarz?ysko in mid-1943; finding a friend in order to look after one another; transfer to Buchenwald; prisoners killing the brutal kapos from Skarz?ysko; transfer to Schlieben two weeks later; slave labor building barracks and in a munitions factory; a prisoner official beating him in front of a German when he was smuggling food, which saved his life, since he would have been shot; and transfer to Theresienstadt in March 1945. Mr. T. discusses inter-group relations in camps and his feelings at various times.

3 videocassettes