Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alfred T., who was born in Konyár, Hungary in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; joining a brother in Budapest in August 1936; apprenticing to a window-designer; attending art classes; gymnastics training; working as a window-designer; changing his name to conceal he was Jewish; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in October 1940; transfer to Belgorod on the Soviet front in November 1941; removing mines and corpses; execution of every tenth prisoner when two prisoners escaped; capture by Soviets in January 1943; internment with German and Hungarian POWs; carrying a friend on a forced march; escaping; begging with friends in villages; arrest as German spies; internment in a POW camp; hospitalization for typhus; transport to Nizhniĭ Novgorod in May; hospitalization; working on a collective farm after recovering; transport to Siberia in August; forced labor in prison camps; and returning home in August 1947. Mr. T. discusses the irony of imprisonment with Nazis; the importance of resilience and physical strength to his survival; and becoming a sculptor.
- Published
- Columbus, Ohio : Children of Holocaust Survivors, Columbus Chapter, 1987
- Interview Date
- July 26, 1987.
- Locale
- Hungary
Soviet Union
Konyár (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Belgorod (Russia)
Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia)
Siberia (Russia) - Cite As
- Alfred T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-999). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (3 hr., 3 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union. Forced labor--Soviet Union--History--20th century. Concentration camps--Soviet Union. Escapes. Hungary. Konyár (Hungary) Budapest (Hungary) Debrecen (Hungary) Belgorod (Russia) Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) Siberia (Russia) T., Alfred,--1920-
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282803
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4282803
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