Morris G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Morris G., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1933. He recalls German invasion; his father being forced to register as a Jew; his parents' deportations; he and his younger sister being taken by their maternal aunts and uncle; a non-Jewish client of his father's hiding them; going to the suburbs; moving frequently; believing his mother would not return because she was frail, but that his father would; learning after the war that his father had perished but his mother had survived; her return; hearing of her brother's participation in the uprising in the crematoria in Birkenau; their emigration to the United States in 1951; his successful bakery business with his cousin; and his mother's death in 1972 (she never recovered from her camp experience). Mr. G. proudly tells of passing an exam in 1988 for his high school diploma and of his children's careers. He shows photographs.
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., Morris, -- 1933-
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Uncles.
- Postwar experiences.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Aunts.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Greece.
- Athens (Greece)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat