Testimony of Boris Blum
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Id no. 1981.T.79, Testimony
Created by: Boris Blum
Subject(s): Resistance, Deportations, Guards, Forced labor, Liberation, Suicide, Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Invasion-Poland, Camps, Camps-death
Audio testimony of Boris Blum, born in Saratov, Russia in 1913. He describes living in Warsaw at the time of German invasion; seeing Jews snatched for forced labor; educational and cultural activities; delivering coal to German homes outside ghetto walls; stealing food; the suicide of Czerniakow. He recalls the Warsaw Uprising; being jailed in Pawiak prison; the ghetto burning; Lithuanian and Ukrainian ghetto guards in German uniforms. He details his transport to Majdanek, where did useless work, and the colors of prisoners? triangles; his transport to Skarzysko labor camp, where he worked in ammunition factory; hiding an injury; trained SS guard dogs. He was transported to Buchenwald, then Dachau/Allach.
