Julius M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Julius M., who was born in Frauenkirchen, Hungary in 1910, and raised in Szombathely. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; he and his sister becoming Austrian citizens when Frauenkirchen became part of Austria in 1918 (this subsequently enabled them to leave Europe); studying engineering in Vienna in 1938; efforts to emigrate to the United States after the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; being arrested several times; his sister being sent to an uncle in England; his emigration to the United States in 1939; joining the United States Army in 1942; overseas service; and marriage in 1945. Mr. M notes his futile efforts to rescue his brother, a Hungarian citizen; his father's and brother's deaths in Buchenwald; and his mother's deportation to Terezi?n, then Auschwitz, where she perished. He discusses visiting the family in Vienna in 1965 who had hidden his mother, returned family heirlooms to him, and maintained a headstone for his father and brother.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- M., Julius, -- 1910-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
Places
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Szombathely (Hungary)
- Frauenkirchen (Austria)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat