Alex F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alex F., who was born in Ladmovce, Czechoslovakia, in 1926. He describes the Hungarian occupation in 1938; being taken as a hostage by the Hungarian police in 1944; the relocation of the region's Jews to the ghetto in Sa?toraljau?jhely in the same year; his deportation to Birkenau, where he was separated from his parents; and his transfer to the labor camp of Auschwitz, where he worked making fertilizer. He relates his experience as an experimental subject in Auschwitz, after which he hid to escape a selection; the death march from Auschwitz to Breslau in January, 1945; and his transfer to the camps of Gross Rosen, Dachau, Mu?hldorf, Landsberg, and Kaufering. He tells of the cannibalism he witnessed in Kaufering; his and the other prisoners' escape from the train which was to have taken them from the camp; and liberation by the Americans. Mr. F. also speaks of the continuing physical and psychological effects of his wartime experience.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)