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Elliot Perry

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Jerry H., who was born in Poznań, Poland in 1929. He recounts his family's assimilated lifestyle; antisemitic harassment; visiting grandparents in Łódź; his father's suicide due to financial reasons; moving to Łódź; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; his sister's demeaning forced labor; ghettoization; attending school; his grandmother's and mother's deaths; working in a leather factory; hospitalization; working as a messenger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his sister (he never saw her again); frequent selections; transfer to Braunschweig; slave labor in a factory; transfer to Watenstedt; train evacuation to Ravensbrück; prisoners sharing food; receiving food from the Red Cross; transfer to Wöbbelin; liberation by United States troops; returning to Poland; finding an aunt in Warsaw; traveling illegally to Prague; assistance from the Red Cross; transfer to England; and living in a group home in Windermere.

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