Arieh K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Arieh K., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1928, the son of Polish émigrés and the older of two children. He recounts his family's move to Berlin in 1930; his father's rabbinical ordination and appointment as chief rabbi of Thessalonikē in 1933; going to his grandfather's funeral in Rzeszów in 1938; attending public school, the American high school, then a Greek private school; German invasion in April 1941; his father's arrest in Athens and imprisonment in Vienna; confiscation of their home and his father's library; his bar mitzvah in July; his father's return in Decemberthen compulsory appointment by a German official to be head of the Jewish community; his worki with high church and government officials to ransom Jews and prevent deportations; his arrest in April 1943, then Mr. K.'s arrest with his mother and sister days later; incarceration with his sister and parents in the Baron Hirsch quarter; their deportation in August with Spanish Jews to Bergen-Belsen; assignment to the "Star" camp; slave labor in the shoe kommando; Dutch Jews joining their barrack; his father's assignment to head a barrack of elderly; reassignment to constructing barracks; and the Dutch Jews observing Shabbat and baking matzoh for Passover.

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