Robert B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; anti-Jewish laws in the late 1930s; conversion to Catholicism; attending a Protestant gymnasium; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation to the designated ghetto; living in constant fear; forced labor; escaping with his mother, sister, and grandmother; forging identity papers; hiding as non-Jews in a basement with other Hungarians; Allied bombings; liberation in January 1945; learning his father had perished; his mother's remarriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. B. notes continuing fears resulting from his experience and hopes his children will learn of his experiences from this testimony.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- B., Robert, -- 1929-
Subjects
- False papers.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Grandparent and child.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Hiding.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Mothers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat