Julius J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2405) interviewed by Rivie Zeiler,

Videotape testimony of Julius J., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1927. He describes German occupation; immediate anti-Jewish acts; his parents sending him and his sister to Warsaw thinking it would be safer; returning to Łódź due to homesickness; ghettoization; forced labor, starvation and round-ups; deportation of the sick, elderly, and children in 1942; hiding when the ghetto was liquidated in 1944; their capture; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. Mr. J. recalls separation from all his family except his brother; forced labor; his brother's continuous efforts to save him; their transfer to several labor camps in Germany in late 1944; train transport in the spring of 1945 to several camps ending at Wöbbelin; and liberation by United States troops. He discusses his autobiographical book and reads his poetry.