Ernest F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3044
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Mako?, Hungary in 1923. He recounts his family's strong sense of Hungarian patriotism and identity; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitism beginning in 1938; attending law school in Cluj beginning in 1941; German occupation in 1944; returning home; ghettoization; being drafted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in June; digging trenches for the German army in the Carpathian area; random beatings and executions; being overrun by Soviet troops in Uzh?h?orod on October 27; capture by Soviets as an axis prisoner of war; escaping; traveling to Mako?; learning his parents had been deported; attending university in Debrecen; learning his parents had survived; their return to Mako?; his marriage in 1953; antisemitic incidents during the 1956 uprising; escaping to Vienna with his family in December; and emigration to Canada in April 1957. Mr. F. notes the importance of luck and personal religious beliefs to his survival.

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

  • F., Ernest, -- 1923-

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jews -- Hungary -- Makó.
  • Escapes.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Faith.
  • Forced labor.
  • Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.

Places

  • Hungary.
  • Makó (Hungary)
  • Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
  • Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  • Debrecen (Hungary)
  • Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives.
  • Makó ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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