Nandor G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Nandor G., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1924. Mr. G. recounts attending cheder; leaving school due to Jewish quotas; training as a stone-cutter; working birefly in Budapest; Hungarian occupation in 1941; ghettoization; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; railroad work in Szeged; witnessing transports of Jews in cattle cars; a World War I war veteran in his group obtaining permission from the city Kommandant to remain as Soviet troops approached; liberation by the Soviets in September 1944; returning to Subotica; learning his family and almost all other Jews had been deported and killed; joining the partisans; battles with German troops; capture by SS and Ustaša troops; not identifying himself as a Jew with the complicity of his fellow prisoners; release in a prisoner exchange; serving as a machine gunner with the partisans; being severely wounded; hospitalization; moving to Belgrade after the war; and attending art school. Mr. G. discusses his experiences and personal losses as the inspiration for his art; winning competitions for memorial sculptures at Dachau and Mauthausen; and other monuments located throughout Serbia. The testimony was recorded in Mr. G.'s studio and his work is shown.

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