Zvi S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liberation by Soviet troops; taking many of the surviving twins home; traveling to Bucharest, Budapest, then Karlovy Vary; and emigration to Israel. Mr. S. discusses maintaining contact with some of the twins and documents about him in Yad Vashem.
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
- S., Zvi, -- 1915-
- Mengele, Josef, -- 1911-1979.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Brothers and sisters.
- Twins.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
Places
- Austria.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Michalovce (Slovakia)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat