Kariel G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3561
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Kariel G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. He recounts growing up in an assimilated family; his mother's death during his birth; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic legislation; a menial factory job; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor constructing airports; a medical furlough to Budapest; obtaining false papers; escaping to Budapest; his father convincing him to return; deportation to Bor; slave labor for Organization Todt; obtaining extra food from Serbian peasants; a death march to Zemun; transfer to Ustaša guards; continuing the death march to Pančevo, then a brick factory in Crvenka; hiding during a mass killing in October 1944; escaping; assistance from local people; joining a partisan unit; enlisting in the Soviet military; participating in the liberation of Budapest; returning to his home (his family did not survive); and recovering family belongings. Mr. G. discusses details of the labor battalion and camps; relations between orthodox and secular Jews and different treatment of them by the guards; and survival of almost no one from his death march. He shows his drawings of life in the camps.

Extent and Medium

5 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

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