Martin G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. He recounts his maternal grandparents' anti-Nazi activities; joining them when they moved to Holland, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia; returning to Berlin; his father's death; joining his grandparents in Milan, with his mother and brother, in December 1939; his mother's remarriage; his mother's and stepfather's emigration; joining an uncle in Brussels; internment with his grandparents and brother in Marneffe as illegal immigrants; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; returning to Brussels; he and his brother deciding not to wear the yellow star; obtaining false papers; receiving notice to report for forced labor; contacting the underground to go into hiding; living near Waterloo with his family; his grandparents' arrest (he never saw them again); being hidden with his brother in a Catholic school; living with his uncle's friend during summer 1943; his uncle's arrest and execution; living in a Boy Scout camp in Momignies; staying with his uncle's friend (his brother lived in an orphanage); liberation in 1944; reunion with his brother; working for the United States military and the Joint; and joining his mother and stepfather in the United States in 1946. Mr. G. discusses difficult relations with his mother and stepfather.
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Martin -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Brothers.
- Grandparent and child.
- Identification (Religion)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons,Belgian.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
Places
- Waterloo (Belgium)
- Momignies (Belgium)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Marneffe (Belgium)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Milan (Italy)
- Netherlands.
- France.
- Germany.
- Switzerland.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat