This is is my dad, a Holocaust survivor, telling one story of lucky survival in the concentration camps.

The Germans held 516 boys at one camp. They sent 10 cattle cars, designated to fit 50 people each, to Auschwitz --to be killed.

They picked 16 boys to stay. My dad was one.

Posted in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For a previous thread with some context, start here: https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/984377967848468480

The interview above was recorded in 1997, and none of it has ever been shown outside my family before. At some point I'm going to make a full length edited video of it to post on Youtube (it was 5+ hours long, so it needs to be shortened). But, for now, this excerpt.

I should add that the odds of survival where my dad was left behind were itself dismally low. This occurred at the Stutthof concentration camp, which was absolutely brutal. But odds of survival were better than at Auschwitz. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stutthof