- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Dan G., who was born in Würzburg, Germany in 1928. He describes the family move to Munich in 1932; anti-Jewish laws; two older siblings' emigration to Yugoslavia and one to Palestine; loss of the family business in 1936; placement in a Jewish boarding school; his parents' deportation to Poland in 1938; his mother arranging for his illegal entry into Yugoslavia; living with his brother in Zagreb, then his sister in Subotica; learning his mother died in Łódź in December 1939; correspondence from his father until June 1941; Hungarian occupation; his brother-in-law's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; transfer with his sister and her children to Bácsalmás; their deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from them upon arrival; transfer to Dachau, then Mühldorf; building barracks in Waldlager in July 1944; transfer to an easier job in Mühldorf; liberation by United States troops from a train in Seeshaupt on April 30, 1945; recuperating in Feldafing displaced persons camp; returning to Subotica; studying in Belgrade; and emigration to Israel in 1948. Mr. G. discusses camp life; beatings from which he still bears scars; and attending a 1995 commemoration in Seeshaupt. He shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- G., Dan, 1928-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1997
- Interview Date
- January 27, 1997.
- Locale
- Serbia
Subotica (Subotica)
Germany
Würzburg (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
Zagreb (Croatia)
Israel
Belgrade (Serbia)
Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
Seeshaupt (Germany)
- Cite As
- Dan G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1846). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B., interviewer.