Tamar G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Tamar G, who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1933, one of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; vacations skiing and in Vienna; her brother's bar mitzvah in Piešt̕any; his emigration to Palestine shortly thereafter; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Žilina with her family in 1942; an influential uncle bribing the commander to release them; returning to Bratislava; hiding in a vineyard outside the city with assistance from her uncle; returning a few weeks later; hiding in an apartment owned by her father's friend; her older sister moving to live with a non-Jewish family in 1944; obtaining false papers; hiding in a factory during German searches; capture; deportation with her parents to Sered; separation from her father when they were transferred to Theresienstadt a few weeks later; forced agricultural labor; attending school; observing a Red Cross visit; liberation by Soviet troops; she and her mother traveling to Prague, Brno, then Bratislava; reunion with her sister and father; joining Maccabi; emigrating to Israel with her youth group in 1949; her family joining her shortly thereafter; marriage, and the births of two daughters.
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
- G., Tamar, -- 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- Maccabi World Union.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Sered (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Žilina (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Child survivors.
- Forced labor.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
Places
- Piešt̕any (Slovakia)
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat