Joseph M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1918. He recalls his father's death; attending Jewish schools; their identification as Hungarians; his successful garment manufacturing business; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Baia Mare in 1942; slave labor in Yugoslavia and Ukraine; frequent beatings and killings; bombings by Soviets; feeling he would die from the work in Brest; transfer to the Ma?tra Mountains; escaping briefly with a friend near Hasznos; a mass killing when they rejoined a Jewish unit; a death march to Mauthausen in November 1944, then to Gunskirchen in March 1945; liberation by United States troops; returning home; learning all his family had been murdered except his older sister; living in Budapest; escaping with his wife during the 1956 uprising; and their emigration to the United States. Mr. M. describes details of life in a Hungarian slave labor battalion. He shows documents and 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
- M., Joseph, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Mizrachi.
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives.
- Romania.
- Brest (Belarus)
- MaĚtra Mountains (Hungary)
- Oradea (Romania)
- Baia Mare (Romania)
- Hasznos (Hungary)
- Budapest (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat