Wadja K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1408) [videorecording] / interviewed by Abraham Huberman, July 13, 1990.

Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 40 min.) : col.

Spanish

Videotape testimony of Wadja K., who was born in Granice, Poland in 1896. He recalls the first World War; Germans confiscating food in 1915 and 1916; working on road construction; his family's move to Żelechów; working briefly in Warsaw; returning home; working with his father making leather boots; marriage; six weeks compulsory army service; participation in the Jewish Worker's Party; and attending their night school classes. Mr. K. describes emigrating to Luxembourg in 1928 to escape antisemitism; visiting his parents in Poland in 1935; assisting his brother to emigrate to Argentina (another brother already had); German invasion in June 1940; anti-Jewish regulations; escaping to Lisbon, Portugal in October 1940; and emigration nine months later to Argentina to join his brothers. Mr. K. shows documents and photographs.

June 01, 2002

Oral histories (document genres)