Max G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in approximately 1930. He recounts living in Warsaw, Poland; his father and grandfather owning Jewish newspapers; German invasion; ghettoization; attending school; smuggling food and weapons through his father's contacts; hiding during the uprising in 1943; deportation to Majdanek; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Budzyn?; slave labor in an airplane factory; public hangings; his father's murder in reprisal for an escape; transfer to Mielec; civilian workers leaving them food; transfer to another camp, then Flossenbu?rg; liberation by United States troops; emigration to the United States; military draft; serving in the Korean War; and marriage in 1953. Mr. G. notes attending a 1985 survivor reunion and learning two aunts had survived.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Max, -- 1930?-
Corporate Bodies
- FlossenbuĚrg (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- BudzynĚ (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Fathers and sons.
Places
- Mielec (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat