Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often alongside Holocaust survivors; completing his first book, Pirḥe-Esh: Shirim in 1949; studying at Hebrew University for two years, then the Sorbonne for one year; his wife joining him; writing a book in 1951 that was banned; editing then republishing it; and translating French literature to Hebrew. Mr. G. discusses some of his publications; not believing in God, but the importance of this belief to Israel, his Israeli identity, thus his interest in God; thinking about the Holocaust daily and its influence on his work; and additional themes about which he writes: humans, their internal worlds, family, love, nationhood, and the place of humans in the nation.
- Published
- Israel : Words & Images, 2002
- Interview Date
- July 25, 2002.
- Locale
- Palestine
Tel Aviv (Israel)
Budapest (Hungary)
Czechoslovakia
Bet Alfa (Israel)
Vienna (Austria) - Cite As
- Haim G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4261). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Due to the fact that this testimony contains significant dialogue between the witness and the interviewer, two versions were produced at the time of the taping. One version has the camera focused solely on the witness; the second has two cameras alternating between the witness and the interviewer.
Related publication: Pirḥe-esh : shirim / Ḥayim Guri. -- Merḥavyah : Sifriyat poʼalim, c1949.
The Eighty-first blow / Gouri, Haim,; Ehrlich, Jacquot. ; Bergman, David. -- Bet lohame ha-getaʻot (Lohame ha-Getaʻot, Israel). ; Ergo Media, Inc., c1987.
Flames in the ashes / Gouri, Haim,; Ehrlich, Jacquot. -- Bet lohame ha-getaʻot (Lohame ha-Getaʻot, Israel) ; Teuda Films. ; Ergo Media Inc., 1987, c1986.
Related publication: The Last Sea / Gouri, Haim,; Ehrlich, Jacquot. ; Bergman, David. -- Bet lohame ha-getaʻot (Lohame ha-Getaʻot, Israel). ; Ergo Media, Inc., c1987.
Related publication: Facing the glass booth : the Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann / Haim Gouri ; translated by Michael Swirsky ; with a foreword by Alan Mintz. -- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2004.
Related publication: Mul ta ha-zekhukhit : mishpaṭ Yerushalayim / Haim Gouri. -- Tel Aviv : ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad, c1962.
Related material: Haim G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1352), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (7 hr., 9 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Refugee camps. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Identification (Religion) Autobiographical memory in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Faith. Palestine. Tel Aviv (Israel) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Budapest (Hungary) Czechoslovakia. Bet Alfa (Israel) Vienna (Austria) Oral histories (document genres) G., Haim,--1923-2018 Rabin, Yitzhak,--1922-1995. Allon, Yigal,--1918-1980. Eichmann, Adolf,--1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc. Palmaḥ. Be. ha-s. ha-ḥaḳlaʼi Kaduri.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6467635
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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