- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frank S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. He describes his sister's deportation; building railroads in a Hungarian labor camp in Transylvania in 1944; evacuation of German troops as the Soviet army advanced; escaping with his friend to Budapest with assistance from a Hungarian guard; reunion with his mother in the Budapest ghetto; collapse of the Horthy regime; worsening conditions; learning of his division's evacuation to Budapest; and rejoining his labor battalion. He recalls escaping with help from the underground; acquiring false documents and shelter for his mother; hiding with his friend; helping the underground to make false documents for the others (he was a trained artist); liberation by Soviet troops; and his friend being killed by a Soviet soldier. Mr. S. recounts his sister's poor health and psychological state upon her return from Auschwitz in 1945; his arrest by the Soviets in 1946; returning from Soviet forced labor camps in 1951; marriage; the Hungarian revolution in 1956; creating a poster which became a symbol of the revolution; emigration to the United States; and his career as an artist.
- Author/Creator
- S., Frank, 1925-1995.
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- March 15, 1994.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest
Soviet Union
Budapest (Hungary)
Transylvania (Romania)
- Cite As
- Frank S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2413). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Webster, Christine, interviewer.
Hamil, Sharon, interviewer.
- Notes
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Additional published material is available in the repository.
