Pinchas Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Pinchas Z., who was born in Baranów, Poland in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recalls his father's successful tailoring business; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment by teachers and school mates; two of his mother's sisters living with them; German occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer of all Jews to the poorest area in 1941; his father continuing to sew for Poles in exchange for food; a Polish friend warning his father of an expulsion in May 1942; hiding with his father's Polish friend, then in a forest near Pogonów; joining another of his mother's sister and her family in the Kamionka ghetto; hearing rumors of liquidation in the fall; his family leaving for the forest near Baranów, then the Końskowola ghetto; returning to the forest near Pogonów in October 1942; hiding in several places with Poles his father knew; suffering from starvation, cold, and lice; being warned to leave the area in spring 1943; going deeper into the forest; begging for food as a Polish orphan (he was blond); his father constructing a bunker in December 1943; a Polish couple from whom he begged offering to adopt him; his father telling him to do so; tending their cows during the summer; clandestinely providing milk to his brother; fleeing to his family when other children discovered he was Jewish; his father constructing two bunkers in September; "stealing" food from villages in February 1944; gathering wood with his father and brother; Germans shooting at them; and returning to the bunker with his brother.

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