Id no. 1988.T.353, Testimony, English

November 20 1988, Colditz, Germany, Warsaw, Bohemia, Poland, Skarzysko, Terezin, Landsberg, Czestochowa, Majdanek, Theresienstadt, Buchenwald

Created by:  Hirsh Altusky

Subject(s):  Typhus, DP camps, Hiding, Forced labor, Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Anti-Semitism, prewar, Camps, ORT, Resistance, Deportations, Death marches, Defiance-religious and cultural, Children, Press, Roundups, Emigration-DP, Camps-death

Audio testimony of Hirsh Altusky, born in Warsaw in 1914. He describes his religious background, anti-Semitism at university, participation in Zionist activities; anti-Jewish laws of the German occupation; life in the ghetto including clandestine press and left and right wing underground groups; disinfection during a typhus epidemic; witnessing roundups and deportations; hiding in bunkers; describes care of children; the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the liquidation of the ghetto; separation from his family; deportation to Majdanek, then to Skarzysko labor camp, Czestochowa HASAG Warta; death march; transport to Buchenwald, Colditz, and Terezin; and liberation by the Soviets. He tells of life in the Landsberg DP camp, where he worked as a manager for ORT, his emigration to the US; and his postwar adjustment.