Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zoltan G., who was born circa 1925 and grew up in a town in eastern Slovakia. Mr. G. describes his childhood and religious upbringing; the Hungarian occupation; his move to Budapest, where he worked as a cabinet maker; being forced, with his family, to the Sátoraljaújhely ghetto in 1944; and their deportation to Auschwitz. He relates his experiences as a laborer on a farm near Birkenau, where he was the favorite of an SS man; the death march in 1945 from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz, then Buchenwald; his liberation by the Americans; and his physical recovery. He also reflects on his prewar religious disaffection; the denial and passivity of many Jews during the Holocaust; and the gradual postwar lessening of feelings of bitterness and the need for revenge.
- Published
- Bridgeport, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
- Interview Date
- August 8, 1979.
- Locale
- Hungary
Sátoraljaújhely
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Bernburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Zoltan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-35). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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., 11 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jews--Hungary--Sátoraljaújhely. Jewish ghettos. Czechoslovakia. Slovakia. Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary) Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) Bernburg (Germany) G., Zoltan,--ca. 1925- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616911
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616911
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