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Moshe G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4172)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4172

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Moshe G., who was born in Końskie, Poland in 1928, the fifth of six sons. He recalls his father was Hasidic; a comfortable life; German invasion; attending cheder; his father's arrest, then release weeks later; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; his father hiding his store merchandise with a non-Jewish friend; his bar mitzvah in 1941; forced labor; the Polish supervisor who knew his father safeguarding him; former Polish customers continuing to buy merchandise from his father, which provided them with food; losing his belief in God; hiding with his family during round-ups in November 1942; deportation to Skarżysko-Kamienna with his father and three brothers in November 1943 (his mother and youngest brother remained and did not survive); slave labor in a HASAG factory; his father purchasing milk for him and his brothers when they were ill; a Polish civilian worker giving him soap; groups of prisoners praying; brief transfer to Częstochowa, then to Buchenwald; transfer with his brothers to Schlieben; an easy assignment because he was so young; running from an explosion that injured him; and treatment in the local hospital.

    Mr. G. relates his transfer to the Buchenwald hospital (his brothers faked injuries to join him); sympathetic treatment by a Czech prisoner-doctor; visiting his father; transfer by himself to Dora; a privileged assignment as a messenger due to his German speaking ability; reassignment digging trenches when it was learned he was Jewish; public hanging of an escapee; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; corpses strewn throughout the camp; liberation by British troops; registering to go to Sweden, despite his desire for revenge; traveling to Malmö via Lübeck; kindness from the Swedes; joining a group training to emigrate to Palestine; learning in Stockholm that his father and brothers had survived; illegal emigration in winter 1947; interdiction by the British; incarceration in Cyprus; assistance from the Joint; arrival in Israel; living on kibbutzim; and marriage in 1949. Mr. G. discusses his father's and brothers' lives in the United States and Israel; visiting Końskie with his son; a trip to Sweden in 1979 at the invitation of the Swedish government; and nightmares resulting from his experiences.
    Author/Creator
    G., Moshe, 1928-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2000
    Interview Date
    April 6, 13, and May 3, 2000.
    Locale
    Poland
    Końskie (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
    Lübeck (Germany)
    Malmö (Sweden)
    Stockholm (Sweden)
    Palestine
    Cyprus
    Cite As
    Moshe G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4172). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    3 videorecordings (8 hr., 18 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar effects.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Bar mitzvah. Forced labor. Fathers and sons. Brothers. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Faith. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Nightmares. Revenge. Poland. Końskie (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland) Lübeck (Germany) Malmö (Sweden) Stockholm (Sweden) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Cyprus. Oral histories (document genres) G., Moshe,--1928- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Schlieben (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4919336
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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