Andrew G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Andrew G., who was born in Oradea, Rumania in 1929. He recalls holiday observances; his large extended family; anti-Semitic incidents in elementary school; Hungarian occupation; increased restrictions on Jews; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; and deportation to Auschwitz one month later. Mr. G recounts separation from his parents (he never saw them again); assignment to a children's barrack; escaping to an adult barrack after hearing that the children would be killed; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; transfer to Dachau; and liberation by United States troops. He tells of traveling with the Jewish Brigade to Italy; living in a displaced persons camp; working for the American Army in Rome for four years; emigrating to the United States in 1949; learning in 1963 that his sister had survived; and a reunion with her in Israel in 1966.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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., Andrew, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Refugee camps.
- Jews -- Romania -- Oradea.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
Places
- Italy.
- Oradea ghetto.
- Oradea (Romania)
- Transylvania (Romania)
- Rome (Italy)
- Romania.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat