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31/03/93
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Alberta Strage

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Henry W., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1923. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; attending a Jewish school; his family preparing for emigration to Palestine in 1936; not going on advice of an aunt who was there; his bar mitzvah in 1938; expulsion from Germany shortly thereafter; living in Kraków; skiing in Zakopane; preparing to emigrate; German invasion; his father's six-month imprisonment; moving to Bochnia; ghettoization; building a hiding place; working in an ammunition factory; deportation of his mother and sister in August 1942 (he never saw them again); deportation with his father to Płaszów; slave labor in a metal shop; public hangings and shootings; transfer with his father to Kielce; improved conditions; their deportation to Auschwitz eight months later; a school friend sharing extra food with him; train transport in January to two camps, then Nordhausen; the train driver giving them hot water which kept them alive; transfer to Mauthausen; his father's severe beating, then death; liberation eight days later by United States troops; and traveling to Rome, intending to emigrate to Palestine. Mr. W. notes difficulty sharing his story with his family leading to his writing a book. He shows photographs.

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