David M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-655)

Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in 1921. He recalls pervasive antisemitism in Luta, Poland; his father's murder in 1932; working in his family's bakery to supply bread for the ghetto; transfer to Jelen; learning his family was killed during his absence; transfer to the Łódź ghetto; starvation and disease; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; transfer to Flossenbürg; forced labor in Siegmar-Schoenau; carrying a friend during a death march through Czechoslovakia; receiving food from Czech bystanders; liberation by the American Red Cross in Lidice; traveling to Prague, then Luta; returning to Prague after a friend's murder and the Kielce pogrom; the Joint's assistance in moving to Landsberg displaced persons camp; leaving because he did not feel free; founding a business with a friend in Germany; marriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States after five years. Mr. M. discusses achieving success and his strong patriotic feelings.