- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Karol G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, the third of five children. He recounts his mother's death when he was six; living with his grandparents in Filakovo, then with an aunt in a primitive Romanian village; their impoverished life; raising their own food and trading for other needs; attending four years of school; returning to Filakovo in his early teens; working as a porter; Hungarian occupation; enlisting in the military in 1940; being transfered to a Jewish slave labor battalion; being moved to many locations; slave labor building railroads and aqueducts; being assigned to care for horses; receiving extra bread due to his position and sharing it with his peers; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Filakovo; learning one brother had escaped to England (his other brother had died prior to the war) and one sister had survived the camps; moving to Bratislava; and a variety of jobs. Mr. G. sings Jewish songs and prayers and Hungarian songs written during the war, expressing longing for home.
- Author/Creator
- G., Karol, 1919-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- July 6, 1995.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest (Hungary)
Filakovo (Slovakia)
Romania
Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Karol G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3689). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Riečanská, Eva, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
