Martin G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland. He describes working in the family bakery; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; German invasion; his grandfather's shooting because he did not obey orders (he was deaf); anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; social services provided by the Judenrat; his mother's death; transfer with his father and brothers to P?on?sk in 1942; separation from his father upon arrival at Auschwitz; separation from his younger brother during a selection; forced labor in a gravel pit, then as a plumber cleaning sewer pipes; his older brother's transfer to a coal mine; an assignment destroying gas chambers before the death march in January 1945; evacuation by train to Dachau; cutting trees in Ampfing; the disappearance of German guards during a train evacuation in April 1945; and liberation by United States troops.
Extent and Medium
4 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., Martin.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Nowe Miasto (Województwo Mazowieckie)
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Płońsk (Poland)
- Nowe Miasto ghetto.
- Ampfing (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Nowe Miasto (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat.