Emrich G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3883
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 1997
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Emrich G., who was born in Ivanka Pri Nitre, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1925, one of two children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a local elementary school; high school in Nitra; anti-Jewish laws in March 1939, resulting in school expulsion; training as a dental assistant; confiscation of the family business; deportation by Hlinka guard to Sered in March 1942, then a week later to Majdanek; slave labor building a camp; arrival of his uncle, then his father in April; arranging to be together; observing an officer smothering his uncle in mud; having to sing the "camp song" while marching (he sings it); volunteering with his father and other relatives for transport elsewhere; a prisoner assisting him upon arrival at Auschwitz; slave labor excavating land; an SS guard shooting his father; having to carry his body back to camp; losing his will to live; a cousin encouraging him; deciding to live to take revenge; a privileged assignment in the carpentry shop in summer 1942; assistance from a Polish political prisoner; Slovak women throwing extra food over the fence; sharing it with his relatives; injuring his hand; assistance from a German guard; hospitalization; selection for death; being exempted after Emil De Martini, a German prisoner, notified Dr. Eduard Wirths of his "medical" training; assignment as a medical assistant; improved food and living conditions; learning all his relatives had "disappeared"; increased responsibilities, including assisting in surgeries by mid-1943; and transporting prisoners from surgical castrations by Dr. Wladyslaw Dering.

Extent and Medium

26 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

  • De Martini, Emil.
  • Klehr. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80047266
  • Dering, Wladyslaw Alexander.
  • Wirths, Eduard, -- 1909-1945. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005082895
  • G., Emrich, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ebensee (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97023096
  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
  • Majdanek (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065728
  • Sered (Concentration camp) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004010735
  • Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84188467

Subjects

  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Public opinion -- Israel. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110225
  • Child survivors.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Revenge. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
  • Nightmares. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914
  • War crime trials -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105740
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Human experimentation in medicine. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062870
  • Death marches. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384
  • Fathers and sons. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
  • Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
  • Families. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
  • Forced labor. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
  • Video tapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
  • Holocaust survivors. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
  • Men. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510

Places

  • Rajsko (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Teplice (Czech Republic) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80053111
  • Bratislava (Slovakia) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093362
  • Nitra (Slovakia) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80132141
  • Ivanka pri Nitre (Slovakia) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005101540
  • Czechoslovakia. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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