- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Mark G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Rabka in 1933; German invasion; military draft of his father and brother; witnessing the execution of a classmate; his sister's privileged position as a maid for a brutal German officer; the officer's wife warning her to flee; escaping with his mother, sister, and a friend to the forest; a Polish woman helping them; smuggling themselves into the Kraków ghetto; leaving to join an uncle in Słomniki; returning to the Kraków ghetto with his sister and a young cousin (his mother was to join them but they never saw her again); hiding his cousin during a round-up; his sister's escape using false papers; his cousin's deportation from a children's home; transfer to Płaszów; slave labor for Siemens; escaping a death selection by Amon Goeth; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor at a HASAG munitions factory; assignment to Werke C; sabotaging munitions; his privileged position working with a horse, to which he attributes his survival; a Russian in the German army clandestinely providing him with extra food; transfer to Schlieben a year later, then to Buchenwald; liberation by United States troops; deciding not to kill Germans in Weimar despite his desire for revenge; transfer to Paris by the Red Cross; living in an OSE children's home; learning through the Red Cross that his father and sister had survived; emigration to join relatives in England in 1946; reunion with his father; learning his brother had been killed; his twin children's reluctance to hear about his experiences; and visiting his sister in Israel. Mr. G. provides many details of camp life.
- Author/Creator
- G., Mark, 1930-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 4, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Rabka (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Słomniki (Poland)
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Mark G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2372). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Perry, Elliot, interviewer.
