- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Carl G., who was born in Veča, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. Mr. G. recalls childhood in the large family of a cantor and kosher butcher; attending a German language school in Bratislava; returning home when the borders closed in 1938; ghettoization in 1944; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion; hiding his mother's rings in the garbage pit; her refusal to leave her children with Romanies; deportation to a brick works in Érsekújvar; transport to Birkenau; believing the crematoria to be bakeries; and throwing food to female inmates. He relates incarceration in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); praying for food with his younger brother; working for the Jewish camp doctor; a Polish Gentile saving his brother from selection; transfer to Kaufering; stoking stoves in the kapos' quarters; being saved from selection by the camp doctor in early 1945; a death march to Dachau; escape from a subsequent march; recapture; and liberation by Americans. He recalls reunion with his sole surviving brother; recovering his mother's rings; returning to Germany as an American soldier in 1951; marrying a participant in the 1956 Hungarian revolution; and telling of his experience to give Passover meaning to his children.
- Author/Creator
- G., Carl, 1929-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 10, 1985.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Veča
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Veča (Czechoslovakia)
- Cite As
- Carl G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-636). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kador, Maryanne, interviewer.
Blechner, Mark, interviewer.
