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Max G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-732) interviewed by John Tiebout and Peter Ullman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-732

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in approximately 1930. He recounts living in Warsaw, Poland; his father and grandfather owning Jewish newspapers; German invasion; ghettoization; attending school; smuggling food and weapons through his father's contacts; hiding during the uprising in 1943; deportation to Majdanek; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); transfer with his father to Budzyń; slave labor in an airplane factory; public hangings; his father's murder in reprisal for an escape; transfer to Mielec; civilian workers leaving them food; transfer to another camp, then Flossenbürg; liberation by United States troops; emigration to the United States; military draft; serving in the Korean War; and marriage in 1953. Mr. G. notes attending a 1985 survivor reunion and learning two aunts had survived.
Author/Creator: G., Max, 1930?-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
Interview Date: October 26, 1985.
Locale: Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Cite As: Max G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-732). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tiebout, John, interviewer.
Ullman, Peter, interviewer.

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., 56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Forced labor. Fathers and sons. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Oral histories (document genres) G., Max,--1930?- Budzyn (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (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/4294234
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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