Jack R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0553
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He describes his very loving parents; attending Czech public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish measures; deportation of non-Hungarian Jews to Poland; clandestinely studying for his Bar mitzvah with a Polish rabbi in 1941; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; his brother's draft into a labor battalion (he never saw him again); separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz on March 26, 1944; transfer with his father to Buchenwald and Zeitz; forced labor at the Brabag factory; his father's death after a severe beating for stealing an onion; volunteering to return to Buchenwald; hiding in the sick barrack until liberation; and traveling to Prague with a friend. Mr. R. recalls learning that none of his family members had survived; traveling to Munich in 1946; living in Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; emigrating to the United States in August 1947; and living in an orphanage, then with foster parents. He discusses his trauma when accused of stealing in a camp; his postwar abandonment of Judaism; and subsequently realizing its importance in his life.

Extent and Medium

4 videocassettes

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

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