Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Philip G., who was born in approximately 1924. He recounts living in Kalisz; attending a Jewish school; an anti-Jewish boycott leading to his family's move to Łódź in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; building a bunker; hiding his family during round-ups; his father's death from a beating by a German; burying him; his mother's capture; helping her escape; his sisters' and mother's deportations; volunteering to follow them; arrival at Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Braunschweig six weeks later; slave labor in a truck factory; Allied bombings; transfer to an airplane factory eight months later, then to Ravensbrück; transfer elsewhere; receiving Red Cross and Joint packages; a train transport; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Ludwigslust; returning to Łódź; reunion with a cousin; traveling to Munich; living in Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; emigration to the United States; and marriage to a survivor in 1951. He shows photographs.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 27, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Kalisz (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Ludwigslust (Germany : Landkreis)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Philip G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-476). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 31 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Escapes. Refugee camps. Kalisz (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Ludwigslust (Germany : Landkreis) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) G., Philip,--1924?- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Braunschweig (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4293841
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4293841
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