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Mike G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1050) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1050

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Mike G., who was born in Slovenské Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, the oldest of five children. He recounts living in Sátoraljaújhely; his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; living with his grandparents for two years; his father's death when he was nine; living with relatives in Kisvárda; returning home; attending high school and yeshiva; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; posting in Kőszeg; transfer to the Soviet front; laying mines and construction work; frequents deaths from starvation and disease; escaping with two others in 1944; briefly joining a partisan group; traveling to Várhomok; a local woman hiding them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Uz︠h︡horod, then Mukacheve; returning home; marriage in Budapest in 1946; traveling to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp via Vienna; attending an UNRRA school; moving to Sweden to join his sister; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States.
    Author/Creator
    G., Mike, 1921-
    Published
    Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
    Interview Date
    July 28, 1987.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Czechoslovakia
    Slovenské Nové Mesto (Slovakia)
    Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
    Kisvárda (Hungary)
    Kőszeg (Hungary)
    Várhomok (Hungary)
    Mukacheve (Ukraine)
    Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Sweden
    Cite As
    Mike G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1050). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 33 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Partisans.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294784
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:42:00
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