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Jack G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4202) interviewed by Barbara Hadley Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4202

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Deszno, Poland in 1926, one of seven children. He recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; forced relocation to Rymanów; forced labor in his father's stead; six months in a forced labor camp; a brief escape; transfer to the Kraków ghetto; assistance from a baker; staying in a Catholic hospital when he had typhus; protection by the nuns; imprisonment; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in early 1942; sorting possessions of murdered Jews; sharing extra food they found; saving a friend from extermination; transfer to Buna, then the Jawischowitz coal mine; returning to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Buchenwald; posing as a Polish prisoner; transfer to Dora, then back to Buchenwald; a death march; escaping with fellow prisoners; liberation by United States troops; recuperating in Munich; living in Freising; assistance from the Joint; living in Bergen-Belsen and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps; learning through the Red Cross that his sister was alive; joining her in the United States in 1949; attending an ORT school; marrying a survivor; and the births of two children. Mr. G. discusses continuing friendship with the man he saved; his career and businesses; his wife's illness; and not sharing his experiences with his children. He shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    G., Jack, 1926-
    Published
    New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2002
    Interview Date
    March 8, 2002.
    Locale
    Poland
    Kraków
    Kraków (Poland)
    Munich (Germany)
    Freising (Germany)
    Rymanów (Poland)
    Deszno (Poland)
    Cite As
    Jack G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4202). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
    Notes
    Additional written materials are available in the repository.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Mutual aid.
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.
    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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Refugee camps. Escapes. Death marches. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Friendship. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Munich (Germany) Freising (Germany) Rymanów (Poland) Deszno (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) G., Jack,--1926- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jawischowitz (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) World ORT Union. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4924977
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4924977

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