Edward H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Sevlus?, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in approximately 1930. He recounts his father being sent for forced labor in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization with his mother and extended family; deportation by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to German soldiers in Kos?ice; arrival at Auschwitz in April; selection with his brother for work; volunteering for transfer (his brother did not, wanting to stay with an uncle); train transport three weeks later to Dyhernfurth; slave labor; his father's best friend "watching over" him; Yom Kippur services; transfer to Fu?nfteichen; Russian POWs killing an officer; a public hanging of randomly selected Russians; transfer to Dernau: slave labor in a coal mine; a death march to Friedland; transfer to Dachau, then Ebensee; prisoners killing a cruel prisoner-official shortly before liberation; liberation by United States troops; Russian prisoners killing German soldiers; returning home via Linz and Prague; finding the town "like a morgue"; living with cousins in Podmokly; joining a children's group brought to Ireland; emigration to the United States in 1952; and serving in the Korean War. Mr. H. discusses his state of mind in camps and retaining his belief in God. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- H., Edward, -- 1930?-
Corporate Bodies
- Dyhernfurth II (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Vynohradiv.
- Brothers.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Revenge.
- Faith.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Linz (Austria)
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Vynohradiv (Ukraine)
- Friedland (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sevluš ghetto.
- Ireland.
- Podmokly (Czech Republic)
- Dernau (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat