Max G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-129) interviewed by Robert Prince and Nanette Auerhahn,
Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in Russia in 1908. Mr. G. describes his childhood in Lubartów; his family's move to Lublin, Poland, in 1918; his status as a violin prodigy and his conservatory training in Vienna; his move to Berlin after the first World War, and his eighteen years in Berlin, including his marriage and business successes. He also details his emigration to Belgium after Kristallnacht; life in Belgium; his arrest and internment in a concentration and a transit camp in Belgium; his deportation, with his wife, to Auschwitz; the death march, a year and a half later, through Austria to Mauthausen, then to Ebensee, where he was liberated after one year. Postwar experiences include his recovery in Marienbad and Brussels; the death of his first wife; emigration to the United States in 1950; and his second marriage and divorce.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- July 30, 1980.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Poland
Lubartów (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Vienna (Austria)
Berlin (Germany)
Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Mariánské Lázně (Czech Republic) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Max G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-129). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616905
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