LEADER 06242cpd a2200817 a 4500001 4290891 005 20180529114704.0 008 980731s1994 ctu pol d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233913 035 HVT-3166 035 |9FLW5089YL 035 4290891 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155424 090 |bHVT-3166 100 1 G., Jakub, |d1929- 245 10 Jakub G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3166) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Anka Grupińska, |fJuly 12, 1994. 260 Warsaw, Poland : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1994. 300 1 videorecording (5 hr., 3 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Jakub G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. He describes his assimilated family; German invasion in 1939; his father fleeing east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; crowding and starvation; working as an errand boy for the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and brother in an attic overlooking the Umschlagplatz during round-ups; moving when they were seen; hiding in a bunker during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdenek after they were discovered; separation from his mother and brother during selection (he never saw them again); hiding to avoid useless slave labor moving stones; contemplating suicide; changing his mind when an aunt's tenant gave him extra food; fatal beatings of failed escapees; volunteering for transfer; slave labor in a munitions factory in Skarżysko-Kamienna; a non-Jewish woman prisoner giving him extra food; his Hasidic bunkmate praying and observing Passover; hospitalization for typhus; a prisoner-dentist hiding him during selection; escaping from a group selected for death; transfer to Buchenwald, Schlieben, then Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; observing prisoners killing local Germans; traveling to Liberec, Prague, Warsaw, then Łódź; assignment to an orphanage in Helenówek; briefly visiting relatives in Belgium; studying in Moscow; and his academic career. Mr. G. discusses reluctance to share his experiences, even with his wife; the importance of Polish culture to his identity; continuing contact with the dentist who saved him and staff from the orphanage; and recently participating in survivor organizations. 546 This testimony is in Polish. 524 Jakub G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3166). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. 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