Abe G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Abe G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1911. He recalls moving to Bia?obrzegi; learning to be a shoemaker from his father; making boots for Nazis after German invasion; deportation with his brothers to Skarz?ysko in 1942; slave labor in Werke A, a munitions factory; transfer to Cze?stochowa; transfer with his youngest brother (the other remained) to Buchenwald in 1944; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recuperation in sanatoria in Weimar and Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald and Landsberg displaced persons camps; learning from their uncle in the U.S. that their other brother had survived; reunion with him; marriage; his daughter's birth; emigration to the U.S. with his uncle's help (his brothers followed); and establishing a shoemaking shop. He notes hundreds of relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
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
People
- G., Abe, -- 1911-
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Brothers.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Białobrzegi (Radom, Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Poland.
- Warka (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat