Ben G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-364)

Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Užhorod, Czechoslovakia in 1928 to a family of eight children. He recalls the warmth of family life and the large Jewish community, particularly at holidays; Hungarian occupation; forced service of all men in labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization in 1944; separation from his family upon arrival at Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; frequent public hangings; slave labor building bunkers; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Flossenbüsrg in February; witnessing cannibalism; brutal treatment of Jews by Polish and Ukrainian prisoners; a forced march to a forest; hiding in fields after April 22; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. G. describes walking to Schwarzwald; reunion with his sister in Užhorod; emigration to Israel; military service; marriage; the births of three children; and emigration to the United States in 1954.