- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eitan G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, one of five children. He recounts attending school; participating in Po'alei Zion and other Zionist groups; fights with pro-Nazi youths; emigration to Belgium in 1935; traveling with his father to Marseille in an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States; German invasion in 1940; incarceration with his father as enemy aliens in St. Cyprien, then Gurs; their release; living in a village near Toulouse; studying chemistry at the university in Montepellier; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; joining the Mouvement des juenesses sionistes underground; obtaining false papers and food for Jews in hiding; former Spanish soldiers providing them with weapons; brief incarceration; receiving financial support from the Joint; instructing communist underground members in Toulouse to make explosives; fleeing to Italian-occupied Grenoble; continuing university studies there; he and his brother working with non-Jews to hide and feed Jews; marriage; underground meetings in several locations, including Nice, Saint-Gervais, and Monte-Carlo; hiding in Sassenage; his daughter's birth in January 1944; living in Caussade; completing his doctoral degree; liberation; returning to Grenoble; working with Zionist organizations in Paris; assistance from the Red Cross; emigration to Palestine via Marseille in July 1945; draft into the Haganah, and service during the Israel-Arab War. Mr. G. discusses his career and businesses.
- Author/Creator
- G., Eitan, 1920-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- May 4, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Marseille (France)
Montpellier (France)
Toulouse (France)
Grenoble (France)
Nice (France)
Caussade (France)
Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
Saint-Gervais (Isère, France)
Sassenage (France)
Paris (France)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Eitan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3515). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Frank, Levana, interviewer.
Tarsi, Anita, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
