Martin S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martin S., who was born in Munka?cs, Hungary, in 1923. He describes the Hungarian annexation and the anti-Semitic legislation that ensued; the ghettoization of Munka?cs in 1943; his deportation for slave labor first to the Russian front, then to Austria; the horrible conditions of the death march to Mauthausen and the march from there to Gunskirchen; and the desolation surrounding his "liberation" by the Americans. He tells of his postwar return to Munka?cs, where he learned that his father and a brother had survived; his stay in a displaced persons camp in Germany; and his efforts to emigrate to Israel with his father. Mr. S. repeatedly expresses his disbelief that the many bystanders who witnessed the marches were ignorant of what was happening.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Martin, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Death marches.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Munkács.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Mukacheve.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Munkács ghetto.
- Austria.
- Munkács (Hungary)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat