Johnny G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2373
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Johnny G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah at home in 1939; German occupation; ghettoization; forced factory labor; his brother's death from malnutrition, then his mother's a year later; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his father and sister (he never saw them again); slave labor on a nearby farm; a death march, then train transport to Weimar; clearing bombing debris; transfer to Bissingen; slave labor in a mine; transfer to Dachau; liberation from an evacuation train by United States troops; living in Feldafing and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; emigration to London; marriage; visiting relatives in the United States; and raising three daughters. Mr. G. discusses a postwar visit to Poland; several visits to Israel; and his continuing belief in God, despite not being religious.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

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