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• Author/Creator:G., Jakub, 1929-
  
• Title:Jakub G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3166) [videorecording] / interviewed by Anka Grupińska, July 12, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Warsaw, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (5 hr., 3 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3166)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Polish.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Jakub G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. He describes his assimilated family; German invasion in 1939; his father fleeing east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; crowding and starvation; working as an errand boy for the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and brother in an attic overlooking the Umschlagplatz during round-ups; moving when they were seen; hiding in a bunker during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdenek after they were discovered; separation from his mother and brother during selection (he never saw them again); hiding to avoid useless slave labor moving stones; contemplating suicide; changing his mind when an aunt's tenant gave him extra food; fatal beatings of failed escapees; volunteering for transfer; slave labor in a munitions factory in Skarżysko-Kamienna; a non-Jewish woman prisoner giving him extra food; his Hasidic bunkmate praying and observing Passover; hospitalization for typhus; a prisoner-dentist hiding him during selection; escaping from a group selected for death; transfer to Buchenwald, Schlieben, then Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; observing prisoners killing local Germans; traveling to Liberec, Prague, Warsaw, then Łódź; assignment to an orphanage in Helenówek; briefly visiting relatives in Belgium; studying in Moscow; and his academic career. Mr. G. discusses reluctance to share his experiences, even with his wife; the importance of Polish culture to his identity; continuing contact with the dentist who saved him and staff from the orphanage; and recently participating in survivor organizations.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Jakub G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3166). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:G., Jakub, 1929-
  Majdanek (Concentration camp)
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
  Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  Schlieben (Concentration camp)
  Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
  Jewish councils.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  Suicide.
  Revenge.
  Orphanages--Poland.
  Poland.
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
  Liberec (Czech Republic)
  Prague (Czech Republic)
  Łódź (Poland)
  Helenówek (Łódź, Poland)
  Belgium.
  Moscow (Russia)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Hiding.
  Bunkers.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Mutual aid.
  Hospitals in concentration camps.
  Postwar effects.
  Postwar experiences.
  Warsaw ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Grupińska, Anka, interviewer.