Joseph E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2561) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,
Videotape testimony of Joseph E., who was born in Kosyny, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of four children. He recalls attending a Hungarian school; living with relatives in Mukacheve to attend the Hebrew gymnasium; participating in a Zionist group; Hungarian occupation in 1938; violence against Jews; graduating in 1940; moving to Budapest; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; working in several locations in Hungary, Transylvania and Yugoslavia; transfer to Lʹviv, then Brody in 1942; burying dead soldiers on the Russian front; a privileged position as a mechanic in Proskuriv; improved treatment by his commander; transfer to Stanislav; retreating toward the Hungarian border in 1944; their commander allowing them to escape; arrival of Soviet troops; being taken as POWs to Zaporiz︠h︡z︠h︡i︠a︡; joining the Czech military in Moscow; advancing to Brno; searching for his family in Kosyny (none survived); living with cousins in Brno; attending university; emigration to Israel in 1949; military service in the 1956 Sinai Campaign; and emigration with his wife and children to the United States in 1958. Mr. E. discusses the importance of luck to his survival. He shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 8, 1993.
- Locale
- Hungary
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Kosyny (Ukraine)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Proskuriv (Ukraine)
Stanislav (Ukraine)
Zaporiz︠h︡z︠h︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Moscow (Russia)
Brno (Czech Republic)
Israel - Language
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English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Joseph E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2561). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288063
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