Eugen V. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eugen V., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in approximately 1923. He recalls his orthodox home; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; graduation from business school; working in Novi Sad; Hungarian occupation; a sadistic and bloody mass killing of Jews and Serbs in January 1942, including his girlfriend and her family; fleeing with his brother to Budapest; being hidden once by non-Jews; his brother's deportation; forced service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion at the end of 1943; serving in Transylvania; beatings; having an operation on his hand in a hospital in Cluj; his father's former co-worker, a Serbian non-Jew, providing him with extra food; service in the Carpathian Mountains; an older Serbian man protecting him; being tortured when one person was missing (he later returned) which caused a permanent disability; retreating barefoot; escaping; liberation by Soviet troops; a Jewish officer taking him to a clinic; serving as a translator for the Soviets; returning to Subotica, then Novi Sad; learning his father and one brother had survived the camps, but the rest of his family was killed; and his father's remarriage and emigration to Israel. Mr. V. also discusses his career as an actor and his Jewish studies and publications.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- V., Eugen, -- 1923?-
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Novi Sad (Serbia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Carpathian Mountains.
- Yugoslavia.
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat