- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Israel K., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, one of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish schools; his family's orthodoxy; German invasion in September 1939; his father fleeing when the Germans wanted him to head the Jewish Council; ghettoization in October; forced labor; trading outside the ghetto using false papers; his father's return; a brother and brother's wife being shot in May 1942; hiding in a bunker with his parents and sister during the ghetto's liquidation; leaving the bunker with his sister (he never saw his parents again); slave labor in glass factories in Piotrków; praying every day; deportation to Buchenwald in fall 1944; transfer to Schlieben; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Litoměřice; finding two aunts; joining his sister in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; bringing his aunts and his sister's husband there; visits to Berlin; moving to Munich for six months, then to Paris in 1948; meeting his wife; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. K. notes almost all of his immediate and large extended family were killed in the Holocaust.
- Author/Creator
- K., Israel, 1923-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- March 15, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Litoměřice (Czech Republic)
Berlin (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Israel K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2529). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
