- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Joe G., who was born in approximately 1938, the youngest of nine children. He recalls their apartment in Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions including curfews and wearing the star; a futile attempt to emigrate to Palestine; being sent with four siblings to a Red Cross children's home in Buda in summer 1944; Soviet forces fighting Hungarians and Nazis in front of their building; liberation by Soviets in January; observing Soviets execute captured Nazis; returning home after Pest's liberation; finding their parents; reunion with their other siblings (non-Jews hid them or provided false papers); one brother's permanent debilitation from poor sanitation and nutrition; the Red Cross sending him to recuperate in Romania; returning home; seeing thousands of bodies pulled from the river while picnicking with his family; smuggling themselves to Germany; living in Pocking displaced persons camp for three years; emigration to Israel; leaving due to his mother's health; living in Feldafing and Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; emigration to Canada in 1951; and his emigration to the United States in 1964. Mr. G. discusses his lack of education; nightmares and flashbacks; sharing his story with his children; and surviving due to family unity. He shows a photograph.
- Author/Creator
- G., Joe, 1938?-
- Published
- Northridge, Calif. : Child Survivor Archive at California State University, Northridge, 1984
- Interview Date
- May 22, 1984.
- Locale
- Israel
Budapest (Hungary)
Romania
- Cite As
- Joe G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-311). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moskovitz, Sarah, interviewer.
