- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ernest G., who was born in Hajdúnánás, Hungary in 1920, the youngest of twelve children. Mr. G. recalls his family's Hasidism; his father's death in 1935; becoming secularized; attending a commercial school; obtaining a one-year exemption in 1941 from service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; skepticism about rumors of concentration camps in Poland; being stationed in Budapest; German occupation in March 1944; visiting his mother who had moved to Budapest; escaping; hiding with nuns; obtaining papers for a Swedish safe house; escaping a round-up from the safe house; joining his mother and sister at a Red Cross house; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Hajdúnánás; reopening the family business; marriage in Budapest in 1948; traveling to Vienna; emigration to the United States in 1957; returning to Vienna; his children's births; and final emigration to the U.S. in 1961. Mr. G. discusses three brothers and sixteen of their children perishing; surviving due to luck; not sharing his experiences with his children; and nightmares about his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- G., Ernest, 1920-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988
- Interview Date
- March 10, 1988.
- Locale
- Hungary
Hajdúnánás (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Ernest G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1223). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Quiles, Jose, interviewer.
Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
