Lou S. and Barry B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lou S. and Barry B., who were both born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1925. Mr. S., one of seven children, recalls Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a tailoring apprenticeship; working in Budapest; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization in April 1944; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); remaining with his father, brother, uncle, and cousin; seeing a sister for the last time; transfer to Warsaw in May 1944; a privileged assignment in the laundry; trading goods recovered in the ghetto rubble with Polish workers for food; a death march and train transport to Dachau in August 1944; transfer to Landsberg, Feldafing, then Mu?hldorf; assistance from an Austrian supervisor; transfer to Mittergars; helping his father and brother; his brother's transfer to Buchenwald (he never saw him again); his father's death in February; hospitalization in Mu?hldorf; liberation by United States troops in May; returning home in September via Plzen? and Prague; moving to Czechoslovakia; marriage in January 1946; and emigration to Israel in 1948, then the United States in October 1953. He discusses a recent visit to Khust with his wife.

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