Marcel L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Marcel L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his father selling their stores in 1936 to emigrate to Palestine; one brother emigrating there; increasing influence of Hungarian fascists; his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; his return after two months; he and his brothers being drafted in 1941; his brothers being sent to the Russian front (they did not return); a Hungarian Nazi, who was his father's friend, helping them avoid deportation; visiting his family in 1944 in the Budapest ghetto (his sister's child died then); his transfer to Bergen-Belsen in December; working in the hospital; learning his sister had arrived through a letter (he recently donated it to Yad Vashem); seeing her only once (she did not survive); train evacuation in April; liberation by United States troops; returning to Budapest; reunion with his parents; their insistence he leave; living in a displaced persons camp in Germany for two years; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. L. discusses surviving due to luck; never losing his faith; and often sharing his experiences with his children.

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