Mendel S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mendel S., who was born in Petrova in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1906. He recounts his father's death when he was three; Petrova becoming part of Romania after World War I; attending Romanian school, yeshiva, and technical college; marriage in 1930; establishing a textile production company; the births of four children; Hungarian occupation; traveling to Budapest for raw materials in 1942; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; posting to Russia; returning home in 1944; deportation to Austria; slave labor in a flour mill; learning from his landlord that his family had been deported (one daughter survived); train transport and a death march to Mauthausen; liberation by United States troops; living in Badgastein displaced persons camp for two years; moving to Salzburg; emigration to La Paz, Bolivia, then Argentina two years later; marriage; and raising his daughter and his wife's sons.
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., Mendel, -- 1906-
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Children -- Death.
- Refugee camps.
- Wife -- Death.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Austria.
- Petrova (Romania)
- Badgastein (Austria : Refugee camp)
- La Paz (Bolivia)
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Budapest (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat