Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sam G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1928. He recalls a secure childhood; attending a Jewish school; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents' conflict when his brother fled to L'viv; his bar mitzvah in the ghetto on June 21, 1941; hiding with his parents during a round-up; mass shooting of the Jewish council witnessed by their Christian maid; moving to a furriers' workshop; his parents' deportation to Bełżec (he never saw them again); surviving a selection by stealing a work permit; escaping from the ghetto with assistance from their maid (she gave him false papers); returning to the ghetto out of fear; deportation to Płaszów; digging tunnels in Gross-Rosen in 1944; a death march; transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in Ebensee; witnessing cannibalism; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. G. discusses his deep sense of loss at not knowing his parents' fate and missing all links with his past; his reluctance to share his experiences after the war; and a need to talk about it later.
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1983
- Interview Date
- March 5, 1983.
- Locale
- Poland
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) - Cite As
- Sam G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-450). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 34 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mass killings.
Child survivors.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Postwar effects.
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. Families. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Bar mitzvah. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie) Escapes. Cannibalism. Poland. Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. G., Sam,--1928- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/1100257
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1100257
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