Max R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Max R., who was born in Tekovske? S?arluhy, Hungary (presently Tekovske? Luz?any, Slovakia) in 1908. He recalls attending yeshiva until he was nineteen; working in the family business; marriage in 1934; moving to Nitra, Czechoslovakia (his wife's hometown); his successful business; and cordial relations with non-Jews. Mr. R. recounts antisemitism in newly formed Slovakia beginning in 1939; attempts to prove his Hungarian citizenship since Hungary was not liquidating Jews; having his children smuggled to Hungary; attempts to smuggle himself and his wife; arrival in Budapest; hiding in Koma?rno with his parents; joining their children in Mako?; serving in a forced labor battalion in Oradea, Romania, beginning in April 1943, in the hope that it would save his children; and two family visits. He describes an officer who helped him escape to Budapest in December 1944; finding relatives in the Budapest ghetto; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; learning his family had survived; their July 1945 reunion in Nitra; reopening his family business in Tekovske? S?arluhy; escape to Vienna in 1949; sending his children to England; remaining in Italy for health reasons; joining his family in the United States in 1951; working with his son in the jewelry business; and his joy in his grandchildren.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)