Ralph G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Fu?rstenwalde, Germany in 1931. He recounts his parents' divorce in 1936; living briefly in an orphanage in Berlin; his mother's remarriage; emigration to Prague in 1938; living in Teplice, Prague, and Bratislava; an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to Cuba; traveling to Nove? Za?mky; Hungarian occupation; round-up; deportation to a farm; his stepfather bribing guards to obtain their release; relocating to Budapest; living briefly in a children's home; flying to Venice; living in Milan; assistance from the Jewish community; attending public school, then a Jewish school; his stepfather's arrest; visiting him in Urbisaglia; Allied bombardments; walking to Asso; living in an abandoned factory for several days; German invasion; his mother paying smugglers to take them from Como to Switzerland; staying briefly in Chiasso, Bellinzona, Zurich, and Les Avants; his mother placing him with the Red Cross so she could work; their transferring him to a hotel in Geneva for three weeks, then a children's home; attending school in Blonay; his mother's return to Italy after the war; attending school in Locarno; reunion with his parents in Bari in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Mr. G. notes his good fortune contrasted with the deaths of many relatives in the Holocaust, including his biological father in Dachau in 1941. He shows photographs.
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Ralph, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Orphanages -- Hungary.
- Orphanages -- Switzerland.
- Jewish refugees.
- Orphanages -- Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Locarno (Switzerland)
- Bari (Italy)
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Les Avants (Switzerland)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Blonay (Switzerland)
- Bellinzona (Switzerland)
- Chiasso (Switzerland)
- Como (Italy)
- Asso (Italy)
- Urbisaglia (Italy)
- Milan (Italy)
- Venice (Italy)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Nové Zámky (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Fürstenwalde (Brandenburg, Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat