Joseph E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph E., who was born in Kosyny, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recalls attending a Hungarian school; living with relatives in Mukacheve to attend the Hebrew gymnasium; participating in a Zionist group; Hungarian occupation in 1938; violence against Jews; graduating in 1940; moving to Budapest; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; working in several locations in Hungary, Transylvania and Yugoslavia; transfer to L?viv, then Brody in 1942; burying dead soldiers on the Russian front; a privileged position as a mechanic in Proskuriv; improved treatment by his commander; transfer to Stanislav; retreating toward the Hungarian border in 1944; their commander allowing them to escape; arrival of Soviet troops; being taken as POWs to Zaporiz?h?z?h?i?a?; joining the Czech military in Moscow; advancing to Brno; searching for his family in Kosyny (none survived); living with cousins in Brno; attending university; emigration to Israel in 1949; military service in the 1956 Sinai Campaign; and emigration with his wife and children to the United States in 1958. Mr. E. discusses the importance of luck to his survival. He shows photographs.
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
- E., Joseph, -- 1920-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Zionists.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Sinai Campaign, 1956.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Czech.
- Escapes.
- Prisoners of war -- Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Kosyny (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Zaporiz︠h︡z︠h︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Proskuriv (Ukraine)
- Stanislav (Ukraine)
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat