Eitan G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eitan G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, one of five children. He recounts attending school; participating in Po'alei Zion and other Zionist groups; fights with pro-Nazi youths; emigration to Belgium in 1935; traveling with his father to Marseille in an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States; German invasion in 1940; incarceration with his father as enemy aliens in St. Cyprien, then Gurs; their release; living in a village near Toulouse; studying chemistry at the university in Montepellier; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; joining the Mouvement des juenesses sionistes underground; obtaining false papers and food for Jews in hiding; former Spanish soldiers providing them with weapons; brief incarceration; receiving financial support from the Joint; instructing communist underground members in Toulouse to make explosives; fleeing to Italian-occupied Grenoble; continuing university studies there; he and his brother working with non-Jews to hide and feed Jews; marriage; underground meetings in several locations, including Nice, Saint-Gervais, and Monte-Carlo; hiding in Sassenage; his daughter's birth in January 1944; living in Caussade; completing his doctoral degree; liberation; returning to Grenoble; working with Zionist organizations in Paris; assistance from the Red Cross; emigration to Palestine via Marseille in July 1945; draft into the Haganah, and service during the Israel-Arab War. Mr. G. discusses his career and businesses.
Extent and Medium
8 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- G., Eitan, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Mouvement des jeunesses sionistes (France)
- World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers--Po'alei Zion.
- Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Haganah (Organization)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Italian occupation.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Hiding.
- Noncitizens -- Evacuation and relocation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Zionists.
- Brothers.
- Husband and wife.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish refugees.
- Fathers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Places
- Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
- Saint-Gervais (France)
- Nice (France)
- Caussade (France)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Sassenage (France)
- Paris (France)
- Montpellier (France)
- Marseille (France)
- Grenoble (France)
- Toulouse (France)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Austria.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat