Alfred T. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0999
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Alfred T., who was born in Konya?r, Hungary in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; joining a brother in Budapest in August 1936; apprenticing to a window-designer; attending art classes; gymnastics training; working as a window-designer; changing his name to conceal he was Jewish; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in October 1940; transfer to Belgorod on the Soviet front in November 1941; removing mines and corpses; execution of every tenth prisoner when two prisoners escaped; capture by Soviets in January 1943; internment with German and Hungarian POWs; carrying a friend on a forced march; escaping; begging with friends in villages; arrest as German spies; internment in a POW camp; hospitalization for typhus; transport to Nizhnii? Novgorod in May; hospitalization; working on a collective farm after recovering; transport to Siberia in August; forced labor in prison camps; and returning home in August 1947. Mr. T. discusses the irony of imprisonment with Nazis; the importance of resilience and physical strength to his survival; and becoming a sculptor.

Extent and Medium

3 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

People

  • T., Alfred, -- 1920-

Subjects

  • Escapes.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
  • Concentration camps -- Soviet Union.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
  • Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union.
  • Forced labor.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mutual aid.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia)
  • Belgorod (Russia)
  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Debrecen (Hungary)
  • Hungary.
  • Konyár (Hungary)
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