Eugene R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eugene R., who was born in Abau?jsza?nto?, Hungary in 1922. He recalls the second class status of Jews despite a comfortable life; attending Yeshiva in Miskolc and gymnasium in Budapest while learning the leather trade; his brothers' compulsory service in labor battalions (they did not survive); German invasion; and forced labor outside Budapest in 1944. Mr. R. recounts chaos following Hungary's attempt to withdraw from the war; efforts by a battalion officer to prevent their deportation in late 1944; transport to Ferto?rakos; digging trenches and bunkers; horrendous conditions; transfer to Balf; meeting his two other brothers after their return from the Russian front; a landlady protecting Mr. R. and a brother from a soldier's abuse; transfer by train and on foot to Vienna, Mauthausen, Wels and Gunskirchen; and liberation on May 4th just before Germans destroyed the camp. He describes transfer with his brothers to the Soviet occupied zone; escaping to Budapest, then Miskolc; reunion with his sister; learning their parents had been killed; escape to Vienna in January 1948; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. R. reflects on similarities between the Passover Haggadah and testimonies about the Holocaust.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)