Zundel G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zundel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, the youngest of five siblings. He recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1940; participating in Komsomol; visiting relatives in Alytus; German invasion; returning to Kaunas; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė, then Jonava; arrest; bribing a policeman to release them; returning home; their Lithuanian neighbor saving them from a round-up; ghettoization; one brother fleeing to Soviet territory; transfer to a labor camp; working in a munitions factory; brief hospitalization; returning to the ghetto; evacuation of the ghetto in summer 1944; hiding with his family in a bunker; capture; deportation to Stutthof; transfer with a brother and his father to Dachau; assignment to a children's group; transfer of the group to Birkenau; a death march to Althammer in early 1944; transfer to Mauthausen; observing cannibalism; transfer to Gunskirchen in April 1945; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Vienna; being sent to a Soviet hospital; returning to Kaunas via L'viv; learning one brother and his father did not survive; reunion with his mother and sister in Vilnius; hospitalization; draft into the Soviet Army in 1950; serving in Kazanʹ; release from the military in 1953; working in Vilnius; marriage; the births of two children; and emigration to Israel in 1969. Mr. G. discusses annual reunions with the children's group; recently receiving German reparations; and sharing his experiences with his children.
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Zundel, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi.
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Brothers.
- Cannibalism.
- Fathers and sons.
- Draft -- Soviet Union.
- Death marches.
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Alytus (Lithuania)
- Ukmergė (Lithuania)
- Lithuania.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Jonava (Lithuania)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Kaunas (Lithuania : Concentration camp)
- Kazanʹ (Russia)
- Kovno ghetto.
- Althammer (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat