Paul G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assistance from his father; public hangings; his father's death; Allied bombings; marching to Gliwice, then train transport to Buchenwald in January 1945; his brother's transfer (he never saw him again); transfer to Theresienstadt in April 1945; assistance from the prisoners there; liberation by Soviet troops a week later; hospitalization; traveling to Budapest; finding relatives; hospitalization; briefly returning home; traveling to Prague; contacting relatives in the United States; marriage; and emigration to the United States via Antwerp in 1949. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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., Paul, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Fathers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Khust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Child survivors.
- Forced labor.
- Mutual aid.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Gliwice (Poland)
- Debrecen (Hungary)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Khust ghetto.
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat