Abraham G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Abraham G., who was born in Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending a private Jewish school; his father's lumber business; Soviet occupation; moving to L?viv; German invasion; transport toward the Soviet Union; leaving the group in Brody; traveling to his uncle's home in Zolochiv; being caught in a round-up for a mass shooting; falling into the pit with the dead; crawling out at night; returning to his uncle's home; meeting his future wife; volunteering for a forced labor camp; convincing an Austrian guard to take him to his future wife's home where money was hidden; bribing the head of the camp to take him to the camp where his future wife was; his uncle arranging their escape and hiding with a non-Jew; hiding with his uncle under a barn floor; liberation by Soviet troops eleven months later; marriage; briefly returning home; learning no other relatives had survived; moving to Krako?w; his daughter's birth; moving to Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States; and his son's birth. He discusses losing his religious beliefs during the mass killing; difficulty imagining his experience really happened; and sharing his story with his children and grandchildren when they were old enough.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes.
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Process Info
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People
- G., Abraham, -- 1915-
Corporate Bodies
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Husband and wife.
- Family.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Soviet occupation.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Faith.
- Refugee camps.
- Mass killings.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Zolochiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat