Manuel G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Manuel G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls working as a master weaver; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation; his arrest and trial for smuggling food; forced labor in Radogoszcz and Schieratz; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; organizing a textile factory; arrival of family members in a transport from ?o?dz? (his wife and children had already been killed) in September 1944; saving three of his sisters (the remainder of his family were killed); refusing to select prisoners for death resulting in a severe beating; a prisoner revolt; the death march to Oranienburg; transfer to Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, then Terezi?n; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. G. recounts returning to ?o?dz?; reunion with his sisters; marriage; living in displaced persons camps; and emigrating to the United States. He details many atrocities in the ghetto and camps and discusses the impossibility of escape due to hostility from the local population.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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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., Manuel, -- 1908-
Corporate Bodies
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Radogoszcz (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Children -- Death.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Wife -- Death.
- Mutual aid.
- Concentration camps -- Revolts.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Łódź ghetto.
- Schieratz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Poland.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat