Manus D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Manus D., who was born near Katowice, Poland, in 1921, the fourth of five children. He recounts his family's move to Katowice in 1932; their affluence; attending a Jewish school; fights with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending a lecture by Jabotinsky and Zionist summer camp; he, his parents, and younger sister joining his brother in Warsaw in late August 1939; meeting Janusz Korczak; German invasion; he, his parents, and younger sister joining relatives in Sosnowiec; establishing an agricultural commune in cooperation with the Judenrat and its head, Moshe Merin; learning his brother in Warsaw had been killed by the Germans in 1940; deportations in spring 1942; arrest with his mother in June; Merin obtaining his release; his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); another brother's death; sending anonymous letters to Germans warning them of the war's futility; obtaining weapons and making bombs; assistance from a Viennese businessman; producing false papers; his sister volunteering for labor in Germany as a non-Jew; visits from resistance leaders from other cities, including Mordecai Anielewicz, and Eliezer Geller; his resistance group being hidden by a German factory owner during a round-up; ghettoization; building bunkers; his father's capture (he did not return); being wounded; and escaping with a friend.

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