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31/08/92

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Gillian Green Douek

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Emmanuel D., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1916. He recalls moving to Tarnów in 1926; attending school; beginning to work at age thirteen; his father's death in 1932; his leadership in the Bund; German invasion; escaping east; assistance from Jews in Berestechko; traveling to L'viv via Tauteny; significant earnings in the black market; returning to Tarnów in 1940 to assist his mother; deportation to Pustkow in September; slave labor building the camp; a privileged position as a tailor; occasional visits to his mother; SS assumption of the camp in 1943; harsher conditions; organizing a play in their barrack; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1944, then to Gleiwitz two weeks later; a death march in January 1945; escaping in a group of six (two were killed); liberation by Soviets in the forest; traveling to Częstochowa, Kraków, then Tarnów; one brother's return; marriage; his daughter's birth in 1946; participation in the Bund; emigration to London; and his son's birth in 1953. Mr. D. discusses details of camp life; the importance of friends to his survival; relations between individuals and ethnic and religious groups; and continuing friendships with camp survivors and prewar friends all over the world.
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