Teddy R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Teddy R., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1922. He recalls his family's primitive standard of living; his uncle in the United States sending money for his high school education; belonging to No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; Hungarian occupation in 1940; confiscation of most of their possessions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in September 1943; his father visiting him in Ta?s?nad; slave labor in several locations including Dej; marching toward Budapest in winter with no shoes, minimal clothing and food; confinement to the Budapest ghetto guarded by the Arrow Cross; severe hunger; Soviet bombardment; liberation by Soviet troops in January; returning to Oradea; reunion with an uncle; learning his parents had been deported and killed; contacting his relatives in the United States for papers; traveling to Budapest, then Vienna; living in Linz, Badgastein, and Backnang displaced persons camps; working for UNRRA; emigration to the United States; his relatives not wanting to hear his experiences; marriage; raising his children as orthodox; not sharing his story with them; and a recent trip to Hungary. Mr. R. shows photographs and his wife briefly joins him.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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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
- R., Teddy, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Nyilaskeresztes Párt.
- Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni (Organization)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Subjects
- Hungarian occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Backnang (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Badgastein (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Linz (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Budapest ghetto.
- Romania.
- Tăşnad (Romania)
- Dej (Romania)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Oradea (Romania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat