Maurice G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Maurice G., who was born in a village in Slovakia (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1914, one of five children. He recounts his father's death; attending school in Pres?ov and synagogue in Tern?a; participating in Maccabi; working on a hachsharah; military draft in 1936; demobilization in 1939; a sister's deportation; deportation with his family to Sabinov, then Pres?ov, in May 1942; transfer to Z?ilina, then a ghetto in Poland; selection for slave labor (he never saw his family again); receiving food from non-Jews; escaping with two others; traveling to Bardejov; assistance from a Jewish baker; encountering a friend; traveling to his friend's house in Fric?ka; falsifying papers as a non-Jew; working in Z?ehn?a for a farmer who was a Jehovah's Witness; hiding Jewish families in several locations with assistance from the farmer; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home (no one was left); moving to Pres?ov; draft into the Czech military in March 1945; meeting his future wife, an Auschwitz survivor, in Kos?ice; marriage in 1947; meeting representatives of Haganah; emigrating to Israel in 1948, then to the United States in 1956. He shows photographs.

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