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Alexander K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2693) interviewed by Naomi Rappaport,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2693

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Alexander K., who was born in Sighet, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Romania) in 1909. He recalls his family's prominent printing business; their affluence; attending a Hungarian gymnasium, then Romanian, when Sighet became part of Romania after World War I; his bar mitzvah; marriage in 1941; his son's birth; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visits home; bringing food to fellow prisoners; escape; providing friends with false papers; German occupation in 1944; deportation of his wife, son, mother, and sisters (all were killed except one sister); hospitalization in Mukacheve using false papers; feigning illness; assistance from non-Jews; leaving the hospital in October 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; and reunion with his brother. Mr. K. expresses gratitude to many non-Jews who assisted him. He shows photographs.
Author/Creator: K., Alexander, 1909-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
Interview Date: October 20, 1993.
Locale: Hungary
Austria
Sighet (Romania)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Cite As: Alexander K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2693). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Aid by non-Jews.
Wife Death.
False papers.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Bar mitzvah. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary. Escapes. Children--Death. Austria. Sighet (Romania) Mukacheve (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) K., Alexander,--1909-

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/4288649
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288649

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