- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yan G., who was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland in 1927, one of three children. He recalls living with his parents and grandparents; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; speaking German at home; German invasion; traveling with his family toward the Soviet Union; staying in Lublin; walking west after German arrival; living in a small village with another Jewish family until 1941 (his grandparents were no longer with them); accompanying his father to market in Kazimierza Wielka; orders to report to Skalbmierz; escaping with his brothers to Kazimierza; returning to Skalbierz after a few weeks; deportation by himself to Płaszów; crying himself to sleep; slave labor on railroads; prisoner doctors recruiting him to work in the hospital; public hangings of escapees; transfer to Skarżysko in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to dig anti-tank ditches, then to Buchenwald, Schlieben, and Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; transfer to Windermere, England; and marriage after he was forty. Mr. G. discusses prisoner organization in Buchenwald; hiding with Ben H. to get warm in Schlieben; a recent visit to Poland with his children; emotional distress at the town hall where his family's names were registered (none survived); and avoiding sharing his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- G., Yan, 1927-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 15, 1991.
- Locale
- Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
Poland
Lublin (Poland)
Kazimierza Wielka (Poland)
Skalbmierz (Poland)
Windermere (England)
- Cite As
- Jan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2383). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Perry, Elliot, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Ben H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2121) [friend], Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
