Chaim K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Chaim K., who was born in Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary in 1926, the youngest of eight children. He recalls extreme poverty in an orthodox home; attending yeshiva; pervasive antisemitism; two brothers serving in Hungarian forced labor battalions; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in April; separation from his parents upon arrival (he never saw them again); transfer to Mauthausen four days later; slave labor constructing underground factories in Gusen; assistance from a German guard; being carried by a friend on the death march to Mauthausen; liberation by United States troops in May 1945; recuperating in Gusen; returning home via Vienna and Budapest, with assistance from the Joint; reunion with his sister in Sa?toraljau?jhely; studying in Budapest; emigrating to Israel in 1948; and joining his brother in Montreal in 1953. Mr. K. discusses conducting services and praying in concentration camps; the importance of faith to his survival; choosing not to take revenge after the war; and sharing his experiences with his children.

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