Michael R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Felso?ce?ce, Hungary in 1914 and grew up in Abau?jsza?nto?. He recalls a comfortable childhood within a large, extended family; moving to Miskolc in 1930; marriage in 1938; war mobilization; anti-Semitic regulations; his son's birth in 1940; compulsory service in a labor battalion in 1942 (two of his brothers perished); returning to Miskolc; German occupation in 1944; his parents' deportations; ghettoization; avoiding deportation by enlisting, with a brother, in a labor battalion; working under a protective commander in Jo?svafo? and on the Russian front; retreating through Kos?ice and Aszalo? to Balf; encountering another brother; a Hungarian woman who assisted them; the death march to Mauthausen, then Gunskirchen; and liberation by United States troops in May. Mr. R. remembers recuperating in Wels; returning to Budapest, then Miskolc; learning his wife and child had been killed; assisting in the re-establishment of the Jewish community; starting his business; remarriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. He describes his reluctance to discuss his story with his children and moving his brother's grave to Israel upon learning the cemetery in Miskolc was to be destroyed.

5 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)