Irving B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2304
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Irving B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls his large, orthodox family; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's death; anti-Jewish laws; fleeing to Budapest in 1943; brief arrest; fleeing to Nyi?regyha?za, then Szeged, in 1944; ghettoization in March; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau, Mauthausen, then Melk; slave labor digging trenches; assisting a rabbi from his hometown; defusing undetonated bombs; transfer to Ebensee; fellow prisoners hiding him and sharing their food when he was too ill to work; cannibalism; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. B. describes recuperating; traveling to Prague, then Budapest; illegally entering Austria; assistance from UNRRA in Graz displaced persons camp; traveling to Italy; marriage in Cremona; the births of two sons; and emigration to the United States in February 1950.

Extent and Medium

4 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

  • B., Irving, -- 1924-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ebensee (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • Melk (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Hiding.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forced labor.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Jews -- Hungary -- Szeged.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Places

  • Cremona (Italy)
  • Szeged ghetto.
  • Graz (Austria : Refugee camp)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Nyíregyháza (Hungary)
  • Szeged (Hungary)
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Khust (Ukraine)
  • Czechoslovakia.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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