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Słomniki
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01/02/93
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Alberta Strage

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Israel Z., who was born in Słomniki, Poland in 1922, the youngest of four children and only son. He recalls his family's affluence; their Hasidic orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending high school in Kraków; German invasion; arrest with his father; transfer to Miechów; execution of his father and another man; burying them; returning home; his mother and sisters hiding with non-Jews, obtaining false papers, and living as non-Jews; deportation to Bierzanów; death losing meaning for him; mass killings as reprisals for escape attempts; transfer to Prokocim; helping his father's friend; transfer to Płaszów, then Skarżysko; learning his youngest sister was there; sharing extra food with her and her friend (his future wife); transfer to Częstochowa, Sulejów, back to Częstochowa, Buchenwald, Laura, Dachau, and Allach; train evacuation; liberation by United States troops; living in Pasing; assistance from UNRRA; working for the U.S. military; reunion with his sister; living with her in Munich; reunion with his future wife in Landsberg displaced persons camp; emigration to join relatives in England in 1947; marriage in 1948; and raising two daughters. Mr. Z. notes his mother and other sisters were killed, and seldom discussing his experiences with his family. He shows photographs.

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