- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zygmunt G., who was born in Kopychynt︠s︡i, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew schools; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion; a massacre of Jews; deportation to the Tarnopol ghetto; slave labor; returning home; incarceration in a prison in Chortkiv, then in Kamionka; escaping; returning home; round-up of his parents (his mother was killed, his father escaped); hiding in surrounding fields; returning to Kopychynt︠s︡i; escaping again with his father and other relatives; hiding with a non-Jew; retuning to the Kopychynt︠s︡i ghetto; escaping again with his father, uncle, and other relatives; hiding with several Polish farmers; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; draft into the Soviet army; fighting in Chemnitz; traveling to Legnica, then to Munich via Vienna; emigration to the United States in 1951, then Cuba in 1956; marriage; returning to the United States; and the births of two sons. Mr. G. discusses how few people survived from his town; testifying at a war crimes trial in Mannheim; sending money to the daughter of one man who hid them; sharing his experiences with his children; and pervasive painful memories.
- Author/Creator
- G., Zygmunt, 1923-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
- Interview Date
- February 21, 1989.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Ternopilʹ
Kopychynt︠s︡i.
Soviet Union
Germany
Poland
Kopychynt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Legnica (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Vienna (Austria)
Cuba
Mannheim (Germany)
- Cite As
- Zygmunt G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1455). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Krueger, Sidney, interviewer.
