Mike G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1050
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Mike G., who was born in Slovenske? Nove? Mesto, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, the oldest of five children. He recounts living in Sa?toraljau?jhely; his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; living with his grandparents for two years; his father's death when he was nine; living with relatives in Kisva?rda; returning home; attending high school and yeshiva; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; posting in Ko?szeg; transfer to the Soviet front; laying mines and construction work; frequents deaths from starvation and disease; escaping with two others in 1944; briefly joining a partisan group; traveling to Va?rhomok; a local woman hiding them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Uz?h?horod, then Mukacheve; returning home; marriage in Budapest in 1946; traveling to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp via Vienna; attending an UNRRA school; moving to Sweden to join his sister; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.

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. This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • G., Mike, -- 1921-

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Partisans.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Hungary.
  • Escapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Slovenské Nové Mesto (Slovakia)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  • Mukacheve (Ukraine)
  • Várhomok (Hungary)
  • Kőszeg (Hungary)
  • Kisvárda (Hungary)
  • Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
  • Sweden.
  • Heidenheim (Germany : Refugee camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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