Joseph N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph N., who was born in Mukacheve, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) to a large, religious family. He recalls Mukacheve becoming part of Czechoslovakia after World War I; cordial relations with non-Jews; military draft in September 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; serving in Szentkira?lyszabadja and Budapest; hiding briefly; rejoining his battalion in Budakeszi; transport to Buchenwald, then to Offenburg five days later; slave labor building railroads; transfer to Dresden; Allied bombings; a death march to Dachau; a German woman throwing them bread; stealing food and sharing it with a friend; liberation by United States troops; transfer to Plzen?; traveling to Prague, then Mukacheve; learning that a younger brother had perished in the Soviet Union; joining another brother in Teplice; and emigrating to Israel in 1949, then to the United States in 1964. Mr. N. discusses the importance of luck to his survival; sleep difficulties due to pervasive painful memories; sharing his story with his son; and his belief that proper revenge was not taken on the Germans.
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. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes.
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Process Info
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People
- N., Joseph.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Revenge.
- Hiding.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives.
- PlzenĚ (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Israel.
- Offenburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Dresden Reichsbahn (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Austria.
- SzentkiraĚlyszabadja (Hungary)
- Budakeszi (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat