Rabbi David K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rabbi David K., who was born in Grimaylov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1903. He recalls attending cheder and yeshiva; studying in Ternopil?, Breslau (Wroc?aw), and Vilnius; receiving rabbinical ordination and a doctorate in philosophy; teaching Judaism in L'viv public schools beginning in 1929; Soviet occupation in 1939; teaching history in Yiddish; marriage and his daughter's birth; Ukrainian violence against Jews as the Soviets retreated; German occupation; public executions; working in industrial jobs; ghettoization; changes in administration of the Judenrat due to refusals to carry out German orders; rabbis debating if giving up a few to save many accorded with Jewish law; a non-Jew assisting him in holding a group seder in a ghetto factory; incarceration in Janowska; former students helping him adjust; celebrating Hanukkah; escaping after thirteen months; hiding in a monastery and with the Metropolitan Andrii? Sheptyt?s??kyi?; and writing his memoir while hiding. Rabbi K. discusses several Judenrat heads, particularly Henryk Landsberg; the role of the Jewish police; and his refusal to testify at postwar trials in Jewish courts against Jewish ghetto policemen.

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