Jacob G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitic incidents beginning in 1938; anti-Jewish measures in 1940; forced labor in Mokoto?w in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with his family during round-ups; being caught with his brother on the street; their deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7); separation from his brother upon transfer to Majdanek (he never saw him again); slave labor building barracks; transfer to Birkenau in 1943; pointless slave labor; encountering his other brother there and learning that his family had been deported (he never saw them again); transfers to Oranienburg, Ohrdruf, Dora, Sachsenhausen, and Flossenbu?rg; the death march to Dachau; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. G. recounts traveling with friends to Feldafing in May 1945, then to Frankfurt in June; marriage in 1946; the births of two daughters; and emigration with his family to the United States in 1952. He discusses details of ghetto and camp life, and illnesses resulting from those years.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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People
- G., Jacob, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- FlossenbuĚrg (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Brothers.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- MokotoĚw (Warsaw, Poland)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat