Georges J. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Georges J., who was born in 1927. He recalls growing up among extended family in Oradea, Romania; Hungarian occupation; little impact on his family from anti-Jewish laws; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Birkenau in May; selection for labor with his father (he never saw his mother and brother again); their transfer to Buchenwald, then a nearby camp; forced labor in a petrol factory; sharing extra potatoes with other prisoners; their return to Buchenwald; separation from his father (he never saw him again); posing as a Russian during the evacuation of Jewish prisoners; liberation by United States troops; the shock of the Americans at the prisoners' physical state; two months' recuperation; and emigration to an OSE home in Ecouis. Mr J. discusses the humiliation he suffered; the lasting psychological effects of his experience; relations between national groups in the camps; and the cruelty of German civilians.

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