- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gerhard B., who was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls attending Jewish and Czech schools; learning German; attending gymnasium in Duchcov; being sent with his sister to live with his grandparents in Kraków in 1938; being joined by their parents in 1939; German invasion; substituting for his father for forced labor; their expulsion from Kraków; moving to Niepołomice; forced relocation to Wieliczka; his grandparents', parents', and sister's deportation (he never saw them again); digging mass graves for murdered Jews; transfer to Rzesźow; escaping to Kraków in August 1942; finding no Poles would help him; a futile attempt to illegally enter Slovakia; volunteering in Rabka for labor in Germany, posing as a Pole; obtaining Polish papers; forced labor in Frankfurt an der Oder; traveling to Berlin and Nuremberg when Polish workers became suspicious; arrest and imprisonment; beatings which resulted in his permanent hearing loss; transfer to Flossenbürg, then Moosach and Allach in 1943; working in a BMW factory and as a translator; clandestinely helping Jews whose conditions were worse; liberation in April 1945 by United States troops; living in Prague; emigrating to Israel in 1948; marriage; and emigrating to the United States in 1957.
- Author/Creator
- B., Gerhard, 1924-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- October 3, 1991.
- Locale
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
Czechoslovakia
Duchov (Czech Republic)
Kraków (Poland)
Niepołomice (Poland)
Israel
Wieliczka (Poland)
Rabka (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Nuremberg (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Gerard B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1849). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Pery, Jaschael, interviewer.
