Frank S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. He describes his sister's deportation; building railroads in a Hungarian labor camp in Transylvania in 1944; evacuation of German troops as the Soviet army advanced; escaping with his friend to Budapest with assistance from a Hungarian guard; reunion with his mother in the Budapest ghetto; collapse of the Horthy regime; worsening conditions; learning of his division's evacuation to Budapest; and rejoining his labor battalion. He recalls escaping with help from the underground; acquiring false documents and shelter for his mother; hiding with his friend; helping the underground to make false documents for the others (he was a trained artist); liberation by Soviet troops; and his friend being killed by a Soviet soldier. Mr. S. recounts his sister's poor health and psychological state upon her return from Auschwitz in 1945; his arrest by the Soviets in 1946; returning from Soviet forced labor camps in 1951; marriage; the Hungarian revolution in 1956; creating a poster which became a symbol of the revolution; emigration to the United States; and his career as an artist.

2 videocassettes