Dan G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dan G., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1928. He describes the family move to Munich in 1932; anti-Jewish laws; two older siblings' emigration to Yugoslavia and one to Palestine; loss of the family business in 1936; placement in a Jewish boarding school; his parents' deportation to Poland in 1938; his mother arranging for his illegal entry into Yugoslavia; living with his brother in Zagreb, then his sister in Subotica; learning his mother died in ?o?dz? in December 1939; correspondence from his father until June 1941; Hungarian occupation; his brother-in-law's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; transfer with his sister and her children to Ba?csalma?s; their deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from them upon arrival; transfer to Dachau, then Mu?hldorf; building barracks in Waldlager in July 1944; transfer to an easier job in Mu?hldorf; liberation by United States troops from a train in Seeshaupt on April 30, 1945; recuperating in Feldafing displaced persons camp; returning to Subotica; studying in Belgrade; and emigration to Israel in 1948. Mr. G. discusses camp life; beatings from which he still bears scars; and attending a 1995 commemoration in Seeshaupt. He shows photographs and documents.

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