Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Monty G., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926, one of three brothers. He recalls his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school and cheder; German invasion in September 1939; his bar mitzvah the next week; forced labor clearing snow; deportation of his mother and younger brother; ghettoization; escaping to a forest; capture by Poles; deportation to Blechhammer; slave labor; a severe beating; isolating himself due to his mistrust of others; a French prisoner obtaining a better job for him; hearing prayers of others on Rosh ha-Shannah and Yom Kippur; receiving a package from his father; a four-week death march to Gross-Rosen; fighting for food among the large number of national prisoner groups; Jews receiving the worst treatment; transfer to Buchenwald; assignment to a children's barrack; improved conditions; train transport to Theresienstadt; being placed on a car with the dead; others moving him when they realized he was alive; waking in a hospital in Theresienstadt; transfer with other children to Prague, then to Windermere, England; a two-year recuperation from tuberculosis; marriage in 1952; and the births of his children.
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- September 17, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Windermere (England) - Cite As
- Monty G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2427). 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., 49 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Forests.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Bar mitzvah. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Forced labor. Escapes. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Death marches. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Poland. Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Prague (Czech Republic) Windermere (England) Oral histories (document genres) G., Monty,--1926- Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (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/4287515
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4287515
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