Adolf S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Adolf S., who was born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovkia) in 1919, one of seven children. He recalls attending public and religious schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; a sister's death from illness; working in the family bakery; his father's death in 1936; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of the bakery; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; two years slave labor in Hungary; transfer to the Russian front; traveling home from Belgorod after the Russians stopped the German offensive in 1943; a non-Jewish baker briefly hiding him; deportation to Nové Zámky, Mauthausen, then Gunskirchen in 1944; liberation by United States troops; returning home; restarting the bakery with a brother; confiscation by the communist government; and a successful government career despite antisemitism. Mr. S. discusses prisoners helping each other; the importance of his faith and luck to his survival; constant fear; dehumanization, and harsh conditions during the war; a trip to Auschwitz in 1965; and actively participating in the Jewish community.

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