Salamon K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2038) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Videotape testimony of Salamon K., who was born in Nizhna Apsha, Czechoslovakia (presently Dubrava, Ukraine) circa 1915, one of nine children. He recalls Hungarian occupation in 1940; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; postings in Budapest, Munkacs, and the Soviet Union; digging trenches; transfer to an indoor position after demonstrating his carving skills; watching soldiers burn a building filled with sick, elderly Jews; transfer to Kiev, then L'viv; being assigned to cover mass graves filled with murdered Jews near a Polish town; returning to Nizhna Apsha; his family not believing his warnings about the murders of Jews in the Soviet Union and Poland; building a bunker; hiding during a round-up; discovery (his father and one sister remained in hiding); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sister; assignment indoors due to his carving skills; evacuation from Auschwitz; escaping during a death march; hiding with a Polish family; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. K. recounts living in Kraków; learning his father, three sisters, and one brother were in Sighet; moving to Sighet, then to Aš and Bamberg displaced persons camp with help from Beriḥah; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. K. shows photographs.