Zygmunt G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1911. He recounts hardships during World War I; attending Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; draft into the Soviet military in 1941 (he never saw his family again); German invasion; fleeing toward Russia with other soldiers; incarceration in labor camps in the Urals; learning in 1945 that his entire family had been killed; being allowed to return to Wroc?aw, Poland in 1946; traveling illegally to Vienna to escape antisemitism; living in a displaced persons camp, then Linz; emigrating to the United States in 1950; and marriage a year later. Mr. G. discusses nightmares and depression resulting from his experiences; strong patriotic feelings for the United States; and forgetting more as he grows older.
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., Zygmunt, -- 1911-
Subjects
- Refugee camps.
- Nightmares.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Forced labor -- Soviet Union.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar effects.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
Places
- Ural Mountains (Russia)
- Poland.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Lwów (Poland)
- Linz (Austria)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Wrocław (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat