Frank F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Frank F., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his mother's death when he was four; attending a state high school; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending school in Montreux in 1936, then in Antwerp and Brussels; visiting home in summer 1937; fleeing immediately upon learning he would be drafted; visiting his brother in London; German invasion when he was in Brussels; futile efforts to flee to France; observing the evacuation at Dunkerque; returning to Brussels; obtaining documents for Portugal; living in Porto; obtaining a Cuban visa in Lisbon; arriving in Havana; moving to New York; serving in the United States military in the Pacific; learning his parents had perished and his sister survived; and marrying a Hungarian camp survivor. He discusses life in Miskolc; the importance of luck to survival; and visiting Hungary and Auschwitz.

4 videocassettes