Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in 1910 and grew up in Warsaw. He recalls his father's death when he was twelve; working to help support his family; his mother's death two years later; joining a trade union in 1924, then a Communist youth group; imprisonment for five years for his political activities; escaping arrest in 1938 by entering Belgium with forged papers; connecting with a Jewish communist group; feelings of betrayal after the German/Soviet pact; German invasion; his and his wife's active involvement with the Resistance; her deportation to Auschwitz; being shot during an anti-Nazi raid; rescue from the hospital by his unit; Belgian cooperation hiding Jews, particularly children; arrest in July 1944; his trial in Lie?ge; release by Belgian police; and his wife's return in 1945. He discusses a recurring nightmare of being chased by the SS; resistance operations discouraging collaboration; and differences between the Jewish and non-Jewish Communists.

2 videocassettes