Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born circa 1925 and grew up in a town in eastern Slovakia. Mr. G. describes his childhood and religious upbringing; the Hungarian occupation; his move to Budapest, where he worked as a cabinet maker; being forced, with his family, to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in 1944; and their deportation to Auschwitz. He relates his experiences as a laborer on a farm near Birkenau, where he was the favorite of an SS man; the death march in 1945 from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz, then Buchenwald; his liberation by the Americans; and his physical recovery. He also reflects on his prewar religious disaffection; the denial and passivity of many Jews during the Holocaust; and the gradual postwar lessening of feelings of bitterness and the need for revenge.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
People
- G., Zoltan, -- ca. 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Sátoraljaújhely.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Sátoraljaújhely ghetto.
- Bernburg (Germany)
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Slovak Republic (Czechoslovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc