Simon D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2631) interviewed by Jaschael Pery,

Videotape testimony of Simon D., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia in 1922. He recalls his family's Hasidism; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; joining a resistance group which provided false papers; hearing of atrocities in Poland; a non-Jewish policeman warning him he was on a list for forced labor; fleeing to Budapest in 1943 (he never saw his family again); working in a Jewish hospital; posing as a non-Jew using false papers; receiving correspondence from his family; German occupation in March 1944; conscription into a labor battalion; assembling in Jászberény; transport to Reteag; working as an assistant to a doctor; retreating to Hungary, then Austria; escaping with another prisoner in spring 1945; posing as non-Jews; working for a farmer; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; the farmer's anger upon learning he was Jewish; traveling to Budapest; reunion with an aunt; and traveling to Romania. He shows photographs.