Tibor G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Tibor G., who was born in Ardud, Romania in 1928, one of four children. He recounts attending Romanian school; Hungarian occupation; attending Hungarian school; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his release; ghettoization in Satu Mare; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father from his family upon arrival; slave labor with his father in Buna/Monowitz; a kapo giving him a privileged job and extra food that he shared with his father; public hangings; separation from his father; evacuation to Buchenwald in January 1945; receiving food en route from the Red Cross in Prague; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Paris in 1946; assistance from relatives in the United States; boarding a ship for Palestine; interdiction by the British; being returned to France; emigration to the United States in 1948; hospitalization for tuberculosis; marriage in 1950; and the births of two children. Mr. G. discusses continuing nightmares of the separation from his family and sharing his experiences with his children. He shows photographs, documents, and artifacts.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- G., Tibor, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Romania -- Satu Mare (Harghita)
- Fathers and sons.
- Forced labor.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Nightmares.
Places
- Satu Mare ghetto.
- Paris (France)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Ardud (Romania)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Romania.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat