Henry G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Henry G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls pervasive antisemitic violence; his father's futile attempt for the family to emigrate to Palestine in 1936; German invasion in 1939; forced labor with his cousin; ghettoization; organizing clubs; working in his father's stead in food delivery; public hangings; being married by H?ayim Rumkowski in May 1943; his child's birth, and death a few days later in 1944; deportation with his remaining family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; deportation a few weeks later to Dachau, then Landsberg; slave labor in an airplane factory; escaping; returning when they found no food; his friend assisting him to reenter; escaping a death march near Bad To?lz in April 1945; the mayor hiding and feeding him and his friend; assisting the mayor after liberation; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; killing a few SS with other former prisoners; reunion with his wife; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. G. notes frequent nightmares; the loss of his childhood; and believing others cannot understand survivor experiences. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Henry, -- 1925-
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
Corporate Bodies
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Landsberg (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Childbirth in Jewish ghettos.
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Children -- Death.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Revenge.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
Places
- Łódź (Poland)
- Bad Tölz (Germany)
- Poland.
- Łódź ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat