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Irving B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2304) interviewed by Steven Lang and Bernice Blum,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2304

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Irving B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls his large, orthodox family; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's death; anti-Jewish laws; fleeing to Budapest in 1943; brief arrest; fleeing to Nyíregyháza, then Szeged, in 1944; ghettoization in March; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau, Mauthausen, then Melk; slave labor digging trenches; assisting a rabbi from his hometown; defusing undetonated bombs; transfer to Ebensee; fellow prisoners hiding him and sharing their food when he was too ill to work; cannibalism; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. B. describes recuperating; traveling to Prague, then Budapest; illegally entering Austria; assistance from UNRRA in Graz displaced persons camp; traveling to Italy; marriage in Cremona; the births of two sons; and emigration to the United States in February 1950.
Author/Creator: B., Irving, 1924-
Published: Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992
Interview Date: September 14, 1992.
Locale: Hungary
Szeged
Czechoslovakia
Khust (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Nyíregyháza (Hungary)
Szeged (Hungary)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Cremona (Italy)
Cite As: Irving B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2304). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Lang, Steven, interviewer.
Blum, Bernice, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (3 hr., 19 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Szeged. Cannibalism. Czechoslovakia. Khust (Ukraine) Budapest (Hungary) Nyíregyháza (Hungary) Szeged (Hungary) Prague (Czech Republic) Cremona (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. B., Irving,--1924- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp)

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/4287275
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:28:00
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