David Rybowski is a survivor from Lodz, Poland. He experienced the full weight of the Holocaust, living in the ghetto before being deported to a series of camps and subjected to slave labour before surviving death marches at the war’s end. He spoke to Crestwood students Gabi Sandler, Sam Wasserman, So Hee Pyo, and Dov Houle at Baycrest’s Cafe Europa in May 2011. In February 2013, he agreed to a second interview, this time with Isabelle Pinto, Sidra Fisch, and Gabi Sandler.
Videos
- 1. David Rybowski - Introduction
- 2. Father and Family
- 3. Hitler's Rise to Power
- 4. Prewar Anti-Semitism
- 5. Awareness of the Holocaust
- 6. Encounter with the Germans
- 7. Deported
- 8. Arrival in Auschwitz
- 9. Slave Labour at Buna
- 10. Sachsenhausen; The Death March
- 11. Hope
- 12. Lubeck
- 13. Hearing the Song in Bergen Belsen
- 14. Hanover
- 15. Frankfur
- 16. The Meaning of the Song; Thoughts on God
- 17. Survivors; Memories
- 18. Emigration
- 19. Canada; Sharing his Story
- 20. How He Survived; Denial
- 21. Israel and Concluding Thoughts