- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Josef K., who was born in Lask, Poland in 1927. He recalls his father's military service; antisemitic harassment; visiting relatives in Łódź; attending school for three years; spending summers in Kolumna; his father's refusal to emigrate to join relatives in Palestine; German invasion; his father's deportation to a labor camp (they never saw him again); forced labor; public hangings; ghettoization; deportation of the Jews in August 1942, including his mother and sister; being selected with his other sister for transfer to the Łódź ghetto; slave labor; helping each other find extra food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944; seeing his sister for one last time after her head was shaved; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; improved conditions; smuggling and trading; Allied bombings; British POWs leaving them food; a death march, then train transfer to Dora; shootings and hangings; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; revenge taken by Russian POWs; assistance from the Red Cross; depression upon realizing so few had survived; living in Feldafing and Landsberg displaced persons camps; illegal emigration to Palestine via Marseille; incarceration on Cyprus; serving in the 1948 Israel-Arab War; marriage to a British women in 1954; emigration to Britain; and raising three sons. Mr. K. notes never sharing his story with his children and the difficulty of describing the atrocities he witnessed. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- K., Josef, 1927-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- November 4, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Łask
Łódź
Łask (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Kolumna (Łask, Poland)
Palestine
Cyprus
Marseille (France)
Israel
- Cite As
- Josef K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2110). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Perry, Elliot, interviewer.
