Max G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in Russia in 1908. Mr. G. describes his childhood in Lubarto?w; his family's move to Lublin, Poland, in 1918; his status as a violin prodigy and his conservatory training in Vienna; his move to Berlin after the first World War, and his eighteen years in Berlin, including his marriage and business successes. He also details his emigration to Belgium after Kristallnacht; life in Belgium; his arrest and internment in a concentration and a transit camp in Belgium; his deportation, with his wife, to Auschwitz; the death march, a year and a half later, through Austria to Mauthausen, then to Ebensee, where he was liberated after one year. Postwar experiences include his recovery in Marienbad and Brussels; the death of his first wife; emigration to the United States in 1950; and his second marriage and divorce.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)