Oscar R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Oscar R., who was born in Vienna of Hungarian parents in 1910. He describes Vienna on the eve of the German invasion; his medical studies in an atmosphere of increasing antisemitism; his marriage to a fellow medical student in 1937; and his emigration to the United States (via Copenhagen) in 1938. He tells of his voluntary enlistment in the American army after he became a United States citizen and his 1945 arrival at Mauthausen, after the Germans had already fled, where he remained for a month. Showing photographs which he took at the time, he discusses the condition of the survivors; the initial confusion following liberation; revenge taken by former prisoners against their former captors; and his own reactions to what he saw in the camp. He also relates his present work with survivors, noting the prevalence of lasting psychological repercussions of their wartime experiences.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)