- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frank N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1927. He recalls his close, extended family; antisemitic incidents in public school; transfer to a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation with his parents to an overcrowded, yellow-star house; the contrast between the reality of the ghetto and poetry readings in the house; working as a messenger for the Jewish council, then for the Swiss embassy until the Arrow Cross takeover on October 15, 1944; being caught in a round-up with his father and sentenced for execution by László Ferenczy as a Swiss spy; transfer to a labor camp near Csömör, then to Pesterzsébet; obtaining a letter of protection from the Swiss embassy; mass killing of the ill during a march to Budapest; escaping; hiding in a Red Cross children's home; his arrest while visiting his parents; escape; hiding in a Swiss safe house, a children's home, and a bunker of the Swiss embassy "glass house" with several hundred others; liberation; and reunion with his parents. Dr. N. recounts graduating from medical school; emigration to the United States in 1956; marriage; and the birth of his two children. He discusses the importance of luck to his survival.
- Author/Creator
- N., Frank, 1927-
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
- Interview Date
- December 14, 1986.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest (Hungary)
Pesterzsébet (Budapest, Hungary)
Csömör (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Frank N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-799). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kraff, Sondra F., interviewer.
Siegel, Allen M., interviewer.
