Julius C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Julius C., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1929. He recounts his father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; his father's family's disownment, although his grandmother visited them occasionally; his father not attending medical school due to antisemitism (he became a university professor); fleeing during German invasion; separation from his father; reunion six months later; his father obtaining false documents; visiting the Krako?w ghetto with his father; his father's mother living with them; their escape during a raid (his grandmother was caught); placement in a monastery by himself for almost four years; his father's death in 1942; being tutored by Jesuits who were in hiding; reunion with his mother and brother after the war; visiting Germany with a friend; their elation at the destruction; beating Germans; returning to Poland; joining a black market gang for nine months; completing medical school in 1955; defecting during a fellowship to England in 1959; assistance from HIAS when emigrating to the United States; and his brother's inability to travel because of his defection. Dr. C. discusses his anger after the war; surviving due to luck; learning about the death camps in the monastery; and wishing to forget his time there.

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