Bernat F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bernat F., who was born in Vojvodina, Yugoslavia in 1921, the youngest of seven children. He remembers his childhood in Subotica; his family's orthodoxy; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; attending gymnasium; his communist leanings undermining his religious beliefs; his mother's death; Hungarian occupation; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; solidarity with those in his unit from Vojvodina; being moved to many locations ending in Bor; escaping four weeks later with others with assistance from a Serb partisan; joining a partisan unit and SKOJ; battles against Chetniks; being wounded; enlistment in the Yugoslav military (this became the career from which he retired); learning his father and two sisters did not survive; and marriage to an Orthodox Christian. Mr. F. discusses various factions of Chetniks and partisans; postwar trials of Chetnik collaborators; and the fates of those who were partisans with him.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Bernat, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Savez komunisticĚke omladine Jugoslavije.
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hungarian occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
- Yugoslavia.
- Bor (Serbia : Concentration camp)
- Vojvodina (Serbia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat