George R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of George R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929. He recalls growing up in Budapest, Hungary ; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation in March 1944; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; attack by Soviet planes; deportation from Budapest to Buchenwald in December 1944; transfer three weeks later to Neubrandenburg, then to RavensbruĚck and Ludwigslust in April; and liberation. He describes travelling to the English zone; working for the Joint in Frankfurt; emigration to the United States; two years recuperating from tuberculosis in Denver; and his parents' emigration to Israel and then the United States ten years later.
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
- R., George, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Neubrandenburg (Concentration camp)
- Ludwigslust (Concentration camp)
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat