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Robert B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1989) interviewed by Marianne Kador and Kathy Strochlic,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1989

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Robert B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. He recalls his family's strong Hungarian identity; anti-Jewish laws in the late 1930s; conversion to Catholicism; attending a Protestant gymnasium; his father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation to the designated ghetto; living in constant fear; forced labor; escaping with his mother, sister, and grandmother; forging identity papers; hiding as non-Jews in a basement with other Hungarians; Allied bombings; liberation in January 1945; learning his father had perished; his mother's remarriage; and emigration to the United States. Mr. B. notes continuing fears resulting from his experience and hopes his children will learn of his experiences from this testimony.
Author/Creator: B., Robert, 1929-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
Interview Date: November 12, 1991.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Robert B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1989). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kador, Marianne, interviewer.
Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (48 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
False papers.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Christian converts from Judaism. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Escapes. Mothers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Grandparent and child. Budapest (Hungary) Hungary. Oral histories (document genres) B., Robert,--1929-

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/4285870
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:42:00
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