Gustav S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Gustav S., who was born in a Romanian village near Chernivt︠s︡i in 1925, the oldest of three children. He recalls antisemitic harassment in the local school; attending school in Chernivt︠s︡i; Soviet occupation; confiscation of his family's house and business; their move to Chernivt︠s︡i in 1940; German and Romanian invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to a former military barrack near Ataki in November 1941; entering the Mogilev-Podolskyi ghetto; hospitalization for typus for several months; his mother's death; his younger brother smuggling to support the family; his father's death in March 1943; forced labor for Organisation Todt; repatriation of his brother and sister in January 1944 (he was too old); liberation by partisans and Soviet troops; draft into the Soviet military; postings to Mazyr, then Minsk; attending officer training; postings in Astrakhanʹ and Stalingrad (presently Volgograd); learning his brother and sister had survived; discharge from the military in 1950; returning to Chernivtsi; resuming his education; marriage; the births of two children; working as a teacher; moving to Romania in 1968; and emigration to Israel in 1972.
Extent and Medium
4 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
- S., Gustav, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Organisation Todt (Germany)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
- Forced labor.
- Mutual aid.
- Partisans.
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt︠s︡i.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Transnistria (Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
Places
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Romania.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Mazyr (Homelʹskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
- Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
- Ataki (Moldova)
- Czernowitz ghetto.
- Mogilev-Podolskiy ghetto.
- Astrakhanʹ (Russia)
- Volgograd (Russia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat