| Summary: | Videotape testimony of Leo Z., who was born in Włocławek, Poland in 1920 one of seven children. He recalls German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Kolmar (Chodzież) for forced labor in 1941; transfer to Poznań, then Auschwitz/Birkenau, in 1943; a beating for an escape attempt; transfer to Buchenwald, then Essen; slave labor in a Krupp factory for about eighteen months; liberation from a train by United States troops; returning home seeking relatives; learning no one survived; traveling to Germany; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States. Mr. Z. notes sharing his story with his children when they were young and their disbelief
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