Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2641
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Gyo?r, Hungary in 1910. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his marriage; antisemitic laws beginning in 1938; draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion; forced labor in Nagyva?rad (Oradea), Voronezh on the Soviet front, then Vienna; discharge for health reasons; his divorce; German occupation in 1944; selection for forced labor; transfer to Budapest; sabotaging German machinery; smuggling food into ghetto areas; transfer to Ferto?rakos; deportation to Mauthausen; liberation by United States troops; convalescing from typhus in Linz; learning his brother and family had perished in Auschwitz; returning to Gyo?r; remarriage; reopening his business; emigrating to the United States in 1956 due to the uprising; and working as a mechanical engineering supervisor. Mr. S. discusses specific wartime incidents and his determination to resist victimization. He shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • S., Joseph, -- 1910-

Corporate Bodies

  • Mauthausen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Sabotage.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Hungary -- Győr.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Draft -- Hungary.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives.
  • Nagyvárad (Romania)
  • Győr ghetto.
  • Linz (Austria)
  • Fertőrakos (Hungary)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Voronezh (Russia)
  • Oradea (Romania)
  • Győr (Hungary)
  • Hungary.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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