- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Harold G., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls working in Budapest from age sixteen; belonging to a Zionist organization; lending his identity papers to a fellow member who had escaped from Slovakia; his friend warning him not to listen to any Nazi instructions; returning home for Passover 1944; German invasion of his Hungarian-occupied town; escaping prior to ghettoziation, posing as a non-Jew; buying bread from a non-Jew and sending it to his mother in the ghetto; joining a group escaping to Slovakia; smuggling themselves across the border; assistance from the Jewish community in Michalovce; joining the partisans in Banská Bystrica during the Slovak uprising; transporting children across the Tatra Mountains; joining partisans in Prešov; hiding with a non-Jewish woman; crossing into Hungary; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; and leaving once the Soviets took over.
- Author/Creator
- G., Harold, 1925-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1991
- Interview Date
- May 30, 1991.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Czechoslovakia
Budapest (Hungary)
Michalovce (Slovakia)
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)
Prešov (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Harold G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2278). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zeiler, Rivie, interviewer.
