Stephen J. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Stephen J., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1939. He recounts his family's move to Piotrko?w Trybunalski after German occupation; ghettoization; his father's privileged position as a physician; living in a hospital compound; deportation to a labor camp with his parents, brother, and uncles and aunts; transfer to Buchenwald with his father and brother (his mother was sent to Bergen-Belsen); being hidden in the shoemaker's shop with assistance from a German prisoner-physician, then in the tuberculosis barrack; seeing shootings and wagons full of corpses; the prisoner uprising; liberation by United States troops; reunion with his mother; living in displaced persons camps in Switzerland; attending school; and emigrating to the United States. Mr. J. discusses his family's reluctance to discuss the war years; the importance to their survival of his father's profession and help from many prisoners; his father's successful efforts in saving many others; and regrets that his parents' stories were not recorded. He shows photographs.

2 videocassettes