Joseph K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Ganichi, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1923. He recalls attending school in Sighet; cordial relations with non-Jews; belonging to Betar; his sister's and brother's emigration to Palestine; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Mukacheve, Kisvr?da, and Korice; returning home; learning his other sister and her children had been shot; he and his parents hiding during a round-up with help from their maid's husband; the same man surrendering them; ghettoization in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); transfer to Buna/Monowitz; a Polish Jew advising him to volunteer as a machinist, which saved his life; public hangings; hospitalization; treatment by a Jewish prisoner doctor; remaining with two friends who were brothers; sharing extra food with them; another friend praying daily; Allied bombings; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; Czechs throwing them food en route; and a death march to Dachau.
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
- K., Joseph, -- 1923?-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Betar.
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Friendship.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Mukacheve.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Death marches.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Zionists.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Allach (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Plzeň (Czech Republic)
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Kisvárda (Hungary)
- Munkács ghetto.
- Varnsdorf (Czech Republic)
- Sighet (Romania)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Ganichi (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat