Paul G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2589) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, June 30, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 29 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Greenwald, Paul. Interview 27953. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assistance from his father; public hangings; his father's death; Allied bombings; marching to Gliwice, then train transport to Buchenwald in January 1945; his brother's transfer (he never saw him again); transfer to Theresienstadt in April 1945; assistance from the prisoners there; liberation by Soviet troops a week later; hospitalization; traveling to Budapest; finding relatives; hospitalization; briefly returning home; traveling to Prague; contacting relatives in the United States; marriage; and emigration to the United States via Antwerp in 1949. He shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Paul G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2589). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Paul G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2589). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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