Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marcelo G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1913. He recalls living in Praga; learning to be a furrier at age fifteen; military service from 1935-1937; marriage in 1938; German invasion; service on the eastern front; capture by Germans; escaping home; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in fall 1940; traveling in 1941 to Siedlce to arrange food shipments to the Warsaw ghetto; helping to organize tree planting in the ghetto; exemption from deportation due to his job in a fur factory; observing the deportation of Janusz Korczak and his orphans; his parents' and siblings' deportations; obtaining false papers for himself and his wife from non-Jewish friends; leaving when exposure was threatened; living with a friend who was in the underground (AK); maintaining contacts with the ghetto; confirmation of his "worst fears" from a Treblinka escapee; observing the ghetto uprising in 1943; posing as a non-Jew to join the AK to exact revenge; placement in a Polish hospital; and fleeing Warsaw. Mr. G. notes the importance of luck to his survival.
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1994
- Interview Date
- May 5, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Praga (Warsaw, Poland)
Siedlce (Poland) - Cite As
- Marcelo G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3157). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Spanish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
False papers.
Warsaw ghetto.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Resistance. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Prisoners of war--Poland. Escapes. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Husband and wife. Revenge. Warsaw (Poland) Poland. Praga (Warsaw, Poland) Siedlce (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Oral histories (document genres) Korczak, Janusz,--1878-1942. G., Marcelo,--1913- Poland.--Polskie Siły Zbrojne.--Armia Krajowa.
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/4290823
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:29:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290823
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