Max N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Max N., who was born near Moscow in 1914. He recounts his family's move to Otwock, Poland after the revolution; attending university in Warsaw from 1933-1936, then briefly in Jerusalem; returning home due to Arab uprisings; marriage in 1937; his daughter's birth; ghettoization; his wife and daughter escaping the day before liquidation of the ghetto (his remaining family were killed); his transfer to Karczew; escaping to the Warsaw ghetto to join a sister (his wife was hiding with a non-Jew outside the ghetto and their daughter was in a Catholic orphanage in Otwock); working outside the ghetto; a German warning him not to return; joining his wife in hiding; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Otwock and retrieving their daughter; moving to Prague, Landsberg displaced persons camp, then Belgium; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. N. discusses taking a year to persuade their daughter to accept Judaism; continuing contact with the Poles who hid them; and trying to forget his experiences.

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