Jack G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slave labor at an airport, then a forest; transfer with his brother to Kedainiai, Paneve?z?ys, Stutthof and Landsberg; working in an underground factory; his friend's suicide; slave labor in Kaufering; a death march to Dachau, and two weeks later, toward the Tyrol Mountains; liberation by United States troops; staying briefly in Bad To?lz; living in displaced persons camps in Munich, Feldafing, and Stuttgart; reunion with his sister; learning his mother and four other siblings had perished; and emigration to the United States. Mr. G. notes assistance from the Joint; marriage; his businesses; and children. He describes many details of concentration camp life.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Jack, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Soviet occupation.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers.
- Jew -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
Places
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Kovno ghetto.
- Li︠u︡bomlʹ (Ukraine)
- Kostopilʹ (Ukraine)
- Karolinów (Poland)
- Bad Tölz (Germany)
- Poland.
- Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
- Munich (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Stuttgart (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Kedainiai (Lithuania : Concentration camp)
- Panevėžys (Lithuania : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat