Leib B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leib B., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recalls his parents' divorce in 1937; his mother's remarriage; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; his biological father's killing as a member of the intelligentsia; ghettoization; assignment with other children to agricultural work; smuggling food into the ghetto; a Lithuanian policeman saving him from a round-up for mass killing; writing songs; caring for his younger sister; helping the ghetto underground; public hanging of an escapee; a Jewish policeman saving him and his family; transfer to Kauern-Schanzen; learning his stepbrother and sister had been killed in the children's round-up; arrival of his mother and stepfather; transfer to Landsberg with his step father; placement in a children's tent ten days later; transfer the next day to Dachau; separation from his stepfather upon transfer five days later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; placement in a children's barrack; tattooing a week later; he and other boys who had been communists receiving assistance from a communist prisoner; receiving extra food; arrival of non-Jewish, older Polish children accompanied by a priest; their daily prayers; playing chess with them; writing songs; organizing a concert for which the performers received extra food; brief hospitalization; and assistance from an Uzbek doctor.

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