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Jack G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-552) interviewed by Gitta Fajerstein Roth and Gordon Maguire,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-552

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938 to a Jewish father (whom he never knew) and a half-Jewish mother. He recounts his mother telling him of his father's arrest in 1939; hiding with his mother; deportation with his mother to Theresienstadt; his mother's forced labor; an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to another camp by train with a friend; being "kicked off the train" and spending two months in "a holding place" in Vienna; returning to Theresienstadt, where his mother taught him reading and arithmetic; receiving packages from his aunt in Vienna; liberation by Soviet troops in April 1945; walking to Prague with his mother; and traveling to Vienna. Mr. G. recalls attending high school in Vienna; always letting others know he was Jewish to avoid antisemitism; emigrating to the United States in 1950; marriage to a woman who converted to Judaism; and the importance of his ethnic, Jewish identity. He discusses long separations from his mother and her successfully insulating him from war memories.
Author/Creator: G., Jack, 1938-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1984
Interview Date: June 24, 1984.
Locale: Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Cite As: Jack G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-552). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
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. Mothers and sons. Children of interfaith marriage. Identification (Religion) Austria. Vienna (Austria) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) G., Jack,--1938- 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/1108232
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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