Michael B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Michael B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. He recounts his father's death when he was a year old; visits to his grandparents in Budapest; the Anschluss in 1938; antisemitic propaganda; his mother withdrawing him from school; their conversion to Roman Catholicism, hoping for safety; futile attempts to emigrate to the United States; traveling to Budapest in spring 1941; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures; forced relocation in June; their housemate, Béla Vihar, entertaining the children; Allied bombings; forced labor with his scout troop; his mother obtaining a Vatican letter of protection; hiding during round-ups; moving into a Vatican safe house with his mother and grandmother; their transfer to the ghetto in December; liberation by Russian troops in January 1945; leaving in the spring due to food shortages; briefly living in Nyíregyháza; assistance from the Jewish community; moving to Debrecen, then Nagyvárad (Oradea); returning to Budapest; traveling through Vienna to Paris in September 1946; emigration to the United States; marriage; his career as a chemist; and visiting his half-brother in Vienna in 1969. He discusses his father's publishing career and Vihar's book. He shows photographs and memorabilia.

3 videocassettes