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Jacob G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1069) interviewed by Raya Adler and Miriam Lazarus,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1069

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in 1910 and grew up in Warsaw. He recalls his father's death when he was twelve; working to help support his family; his mother's death two years later; joining a trade union in 1924, then a Communist youth group; imprisonment for five years for his political activities; escaping arrest in 1938 by entering Belgium with forged papers; connecting with a Jewish communist group; feelings of betrayal after the German/Soviet pact; German invasion; his and his wife's active involvement with the Resistance; her deportation to Auschwitz; being shot during an anti-Nazi raid; rescue from the hospital by his unit; Belgian cooperation hiding Jews, particularly children; arrest in July 1944; his trial in Liège; release by Belgian police; and his wife's return in 1945. He discusses a recurring nightmare of being chased by the SS; resistance operations discouraging collaboration; and differences between the Jewish and non-Jewish Communists.
Author/Creator: G., Jacob, 1910-
Published: Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984
Interview Date: June 29, 1984.
Locale: Poland
Belgium
Warsaw (Poland)
Brussels (Belgium)
Liège (Belgium)
Cite As: Jacob G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1069). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Adler, Raya, interviewer.
Lazarus, Miriam, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar effects.
Hiding.
Partisans.
Resistance.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Youth--Poland--Political activity. Nightmares. Husband and wife. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons , Polish. Warsaw (Poland) Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Liège (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) G., Jacob,--1910- Young Communist International.

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/4282959
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:29:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4282959

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