Barry B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1869
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of six children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1769), Mr. B. recalls his family's poverty, their orthodoxy, and holiday observances; attending cheder and public school; his bar mitzvah; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1942; working in a shoe factory; meeting a friend in Mittergars who told him how to survive; receiving extra food from kitchen workers; recovering in Feldafing displaced persons camp and Sopron after liberation; and hospitalization in Sopron en route from Khust to Germany. Mr. B. discusses prisoners who observed religious practices in concentration camps, and notes he does not remember everything that happened to him, which he considers fortunate.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Lou S. and Barry B. Holocaust testimony friend, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • B., Barry, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Allach (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Konzentrationslager Warschau.
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
  • Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)

Subjects

  • Bar mitzvah.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Friendship.
  • Death marches.
  • Fathers and sons.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Khust.

Places

  • Khust ghetto.
  • Mittergars (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Sopron (Hungary)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Khust (Ukraine)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Czechoslovakia.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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