- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Norman K., who was born in Działoszyce, Poland in 1927, the youngest of seven children. He recalls speaking Yiddish at home; learning Polish in public school; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures including expulsion from school; fleeing to Wiślica with his parents and sister in September 1942 to avoid a round-up (his married sister lived there); returning home; learning many Jews were killed locally and others deported by train; another round-up in November; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer; having to leave a week later; traveling to Wodzisław, his father's hometown; being smuggled by a Polish policeman to the Kraków ghetto; separation from his parents and sister when he was sent to Płaszów; slave labor; beatings and executions, often by Kommandant Amon Goeth; mass shootings; transfer to Wieliczka; German Air Force soldiers speaking to him; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; a death march to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops; French inmates killing a kapo; hospitalization; going to an UNRRA camp in Italy with Beriḥah; illegal emigration to Palestine in November 1945; arrest by the British when meeting other illegal boats; and emigration to the United States in 1952. Mr. K. notes no other family members survived. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- K., Norman, 1927-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1991
- Interview Date
- December 19, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Działoszyce (Poland)
Wiślica (Poland)
Wieliczka (Poland)
Wodzisław (Poland)
Italy
Palestine
- Cite As
- Norman K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2344). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ticho, Charles J., interviewer.
Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: My Stormy Youth / Norman Kamelgard. -- Indianapolis, Ind. : Outskirts Press, c2006.
