- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abe G., who was born in Warka, Poland in 1911. He recalls moving to Białobrzegi; learning to be a shoemaker from his father; making boots for Nazis after German invasion; deportation with his brothers to Skarżysko in 1942; slave labor in Werke A, a munitions factory; transfer to Częstochowa; transfer with his youngest brother (the other remained) to Buchenwald in 1944; liberation by United States troops in April 1945; recuperation in sanatoria in Weimar and Munich; living in Föhrenwald and Landsberg displaced persons camps; learning from their uncle in the U.S. that their other brother had survived; reunion with him; marriage; his daughter's birth; emigration to the U.S. with his uncle's help (his brothers followed); and establishing a shoemaking shop. He notes hundreds of relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
- Author/Creator
- G., Abe, 1911-
- Published
- Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994
- Interview Date
- September 19, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Warka (Poland)
Białobrzegi (Radom, Poland)
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Munich (Germany)
- Cite As
- Abe G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2754). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dover, Janice M., interviewer.
Hiscock, Edwin A., interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Joseph G. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2614), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.