Martin B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martin B., who was born in Za?luzs, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He describes his family farm; their orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; deportation to the Munka?cs ghetto, then Auschwitz; briefly staying with his father; transfer as a slave laborer to coal mines; the death march to Gliwice; assistance from a prisoner when he could not walk; train transport to Nordhausen; forced labor in a V2 factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; some prisoners taking revenge; leaving with friends; replacing their camp uniforms with German uniforms; brief detention by Allied forces as German soldiers; staying near Hannover; attempting to find his family through the Red Cross; locating two aunts; registering for transfer to Sweden; living at a refugee camp, then in Go?teborg; attending school; moving to Mo?lnlycke with his aunts; emigrating to the United States in 1948; reunion with his sister in 1949; being drafted in 1951; serving in Germany; marriage; and returning to the United States. Mr. B. discusses his career with Fortunoff's and his reluctance to visit Za?luzs.
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
- B., Martin, -- 1938-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Revenge.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Mukacheve.
- Fathers and sons.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Munkács ghetto.
- Gliwice (Poland)
- Göteborg (Sweden)
- Mölnlycke (Sweden)
- Záluzs (Czechoslovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Zaluzhʹye (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat