Zoltan G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-35) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock, August 8, 1979.

Bridgeport, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Guttman, Zoltan. Interview 24874. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

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.

June 01, 2002

Zoltan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-35). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Zoltan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-35). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)