Harold G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Harold G., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls working in Budapest from age sixteen; belonging to a Zionist organization; lending his identity papers to a fellow member who had escaped from Slovakia; his friend warning him not to listen to any Nazi instructions; returning home for Passover 1944; German invasion of his Hungarian-occupied town; escaping prior to ghettoziation, posing as a non-Jew; buying bread from a non-Jew and sending it to his mother in the ghetto; joining a group escaping to Slovakia; smuggling themselves across the border; assistance from the Jewish community in Michalovce; joining the partisans in Banska? Bystrica during the Slovak uprising; transporting children across the Tatra Mountains; joining partisans in Pres?ov; hiding with a non-Jewish woman; crossing into Hungary; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; and leaving once the Soviets took over.
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., Harold, -- 1925-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Escapes.
- Hungarian occupation.
Places
- Prešov (Slovakia)
- Michalovce (Slovakia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat