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Martin G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-703)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-703

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland. He describes working in the family bakery; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair and Betar; German invasion; his grandfather's shooting because he did not obey orders (he was deaf); anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; social services provided by the Judenrat; his mother's death; transfer with his father and brothers to Płońsk in 1942; separation from his father upon arrival at Auschwitz; separation from his younger brother during a selection; forced labor in a gravel pit, then as a plumber cleaning sewer pipes; his older brother's transfer to a coal mine; an assignment destroying gas chambers before the death march in January 1945; evacuation by train to Dachau; cutting trees in Ampfing; the disappearance of German guards during a train evacuation in April 1945; and liberation by United States troops.
Author/Creator: G., Martin.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
Interview Date: March 2, 1986.
Locale: Poland
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Poland)
Płońsk (Poland)
Cite As: Martin G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-703). 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., 28 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Poland) Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish councils. Death marches. Poland. Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Poland) Płońsk (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) G., Martin. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (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/1108241
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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