Endre G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Endre G., who was born in Eger, Hungary in 1923. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; his brother's compulsory service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion beginning in 1942; his service beginning in March 1944; their Hungarian captain treating them very well; farm labor from April to August; transfer to Budapest; deportation to Balf in October; slave labor digging anti-tank trenches; forming a friendship group which helped each other; a death march to Mauthausen in December; staying in the tent camp; every day discussing meals they would eat after liberation; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by United States troops; feeling hate toward Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians; slapping the first Hungarian he encountered; stopping Hungarians attempting to escape and turning them over to the Allies; returning to Budapest, then Eger; reunion with his brother; learning their parents had been deported and killed; escaping from Hungary with his brother using forged papers; living in Belgium, then in Israel from 1971 to 1974; and returning to Belgium. Mr. G. discusses continuing contact with his camp friends and surviving because he never lost hope.

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