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Elliot Perry

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Johnny G., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah at home in 1939; German occupation; ghettoization; forced factory labor; his brother's death from malnutrition, then his mother's a year later; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his father and sister (he never saw them again); slave labor on a nearby farm; a death march, then train transport to Weimar; clearing bombing debris; transfer to Bissingen; slave labor in a mine; transfer to Dachau; liberation from an evacuation train by United States troops; living in Feldafing and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; emigration to London; marriage; visiting relatives in the United States; and raising three daughters. Mr. G. discusses a postwar visit to Poland; several visits to Israel; and his continuing belief in God, despite not being religious.

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