Overview
- 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.
- 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.
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. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Hungary. Refugee camps. Czechoslovakia. Slovenské Nové Mesto (Slovakia) Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary) Kisvárda (Hungary) Kőszeg (Hungary) Várhomok (Hungary) Mukacheve (Ukraine) Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine) Vienna (Austria) Budapest (Hungary) Sweden. Oral histories (document genres) G., Mike,--1921- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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/4294784
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:42:00
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