- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ben G., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1925. He recalls the vibrant Jewish community; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; the 1939 influx of German Jewish refugees; German invasion in September; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; attending a clandestine school; forced labor; deportations; exemption from deportation due to his job; his father's deportation; separation from his mother and siblings when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Częstochowa, then Buchenwald; transfer to Dora in January 1945; an assignment burning corpses; public hangings; transfer to Nordhausen in March; and escaping after an Allied bombing. Mr. G. describes liberation by United States troops; remaining in a displaced persons camp; learning three of his sisters had survived; their reunion; learning his mother had perished in Auschwitz; returning with his sisters to Piotrków; antisemitic violence; the four of them fleeing to Łódź; joining a kibbutz; illegally traveling to Bratislava; abuse by Polish border guards at Nacpolsk; assisting others to illegally leave Poland; emigration to Israel in 1950; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. G. discusses publishing a bulletin and editing a book about Piotrków. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- G., Ben, 1925-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 3, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Nacpolsk (Poland)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Israel
- Cite As
- Ben G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1757). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Pery, Jaschael, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: A Tale of one city : Piotrków Trybunalski / edited by Ben Giladi. -- New York, NY :Shengold Publishers in cooperation with the Piotrkow Trybunalski Relief Association in New York, c1991.
Related publication: New bulletin / Piotrkow Trybunalski Relief Association in New York. -- New York : The Association, 1982-
