Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in Dobromyl?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1906. He recalls speaking Yiddish and German at home; his mother's death; his father's service in the first World War; abuse by Russian forces; becoming part of Poland after the war; antisemitism; moving to Berlin in 1926; the emigration of two siblings to Palestine; living in Ostende and Antwerp; expulsion because he was Polish; moving to Barcelona; burying dead from the civil war; moving to Paris in April 1939; German invasion; traveling to Orle?ans, Bordeaux, and Toulouse; arrest in 1941; incarceration in Recebedou, Le Vernet, and Drancy; a cousin bringing him food; deportation to Birkenau in 1942; transfer to Jawischowitz; slave labor in a coal mine; a Polish civilian worker bringing him extra food; breaking his leg; transfer to the hospital in Auschwitz; prisoner doctors treating him and allowing a long recovery period; transfer to Buna/Monowitz in March 1944; a death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; traveling in open railcars to Buchenwald; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Lyon; reunion with his cousin's non-Jewish wife (his cousin did not return); and their marriage. Mr. R. discusses continuing medical problems resulting from his broken leg; his wife's deportation for hiding Jews; considering himself religious, as is his son; and difficulties obtaining French citizenship.

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