Louis M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Louis M., who was born in approximately 1925. He recounts living in Bucharest; his family's poverty and orthodoxy; abandonment by his father; living with his grandmother; attending Jewish and public schools; antisemitic harassment; his brother fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; a tailor's apprenticeship in Budapest; German invasion in March 1944; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; railroad work in various locations; escaping with others in December; liberation by Soviet troops; compulsory labor for the Soviets; escaping; returning to Bucharest via Yugoslavia; reunion with an uncle; joining a Zionist group illegally traveling to Austria, then Germany; learning his brother had emigrated to Palestine in 1944; learning a cousin was in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; visiting him; emigration to Canada in 1948; joining relatives in the United States in 1954; marriage; and learning his father had survived. Mr. M. notes his mother, sisters and grandparents were killed and sharing his story with his children, although not discussing it often.

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