Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assistance from his father; public hangings; his father's death; Allied bombings; marching to Gliwice, then train transport to Buchenwald in January 1945; his brother's transfer (he never saw him again); transfer to Theresienstadt in April 1945; assistance from the prisoners there; liberation by Soviet troops a week later; hospitalization; traveling to Budapest; finding relatives; hospitalization; briefly returning home; traveling to Prague; contacting relatives in the United States; marriage; and emigration to the United States via Antwerp in 1949. He shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 30, 1993.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Khust
Czechoslovakia
Khust (Ukraine)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Gliwice (Poland)
Budapest (Hungary)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Antwerp (Belgium) - Cite As
- Paul G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2589). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 29 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Khust. Fathers and sons. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Czechoslovakia. Khust (Ukraine) Debrecen (Hungary) Gliwice (Poland) Budapest (Hungary) Prague (Czech Republic) Antwerp (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) G., Paul,--1927- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288265
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288265
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