Jacob G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1914. He recounts his mother's death when he was five; his father's remarriage; an unpleasant childhood; moving with his family to Warsaw in 1921; working in his father's sign painting business; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; fleeing six weeks later to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone; deportation to Siberia; forced labor; being allowed to leave after Germany invaded the Soviet Union; traveling to Uzbekistan; working in a produce business; learning in 1944 there were virtually no Jews left alive in Poland; reunion with a brother who had also been in Siberia; traveling with his brother to ?o?dz? in summer 1945, then to Germany; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage; emigration to Israel in 1949; and joining his brother in the United States in 1958.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Jacob, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
- Refugee camps.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holcaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Poland.
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Siberia (Russia)
- Uzbekistan.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat