Arnold R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-592) interviewed by Sondra F. Kraff and Lya Dym Rosenblum,

Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recalls graduating from a technical school in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving to the ghetto area with his family; escaping to Tomaszów Mazowiecki in 1940 (he never saw his parents again); working as a painter; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto in a network organized by the ghetto leaders; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942; avoiding deportation with assistance from a German officer; forced labor in the remaining small ghetto; transfer to Bliżyn in 1943; slave labor in an ammunition factory; an unsuccessful attempt to construct an escape tunnel; deportation to Auschwitz, then Birkenau, in September 1944; working as a mechanic, dismantling aircraft, until January 17, 1945; and evacuation.