Ben G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1928 to a family of eight children. He recalls the warmth of family life and the large Jewish community, particularly at holidays; Hungarian occupation; forced service of all men in labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization in 1944; separation from his family upon arrival at Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; frequent public hangings; slave labor building bunkers; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Flossenbu?srg in February; witnessing cannibalism; brutal treatment of Jews by Polish and Ukrainian prisoners; a forced march to a forest; hiding in fields after April 22; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. G. describes walking to Schwarzwald; reunion with his sister in Uz?horod; emigration to Israel; military service; marriage; the births of three children; and emigration to the United States in 1954.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Ben, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Cannibalism.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Schwarzwald (Germany)
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Israel.
- Ungvár ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat