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George F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2888) interviewed by Lawrence L. Langer and Leon Satenstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2888

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of George F., who was born in Abaújszántó, Hungary in 1925 and raised in Budapest. He recalls exclusion from higher education due to Jewish quotas; a printer's apprenticeship starting in 1940; forced labor in 1942; stealing letterhead to make false papers for others; German invasion in 1944; organizing an underground; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; organizing an escape; recapture; contacts by underground colleagues leading to planned sabotage; escaping to Budapest; posing as a non-Jew; forced labor for Todt in Austria; a death march to Mauthausen in December 1944; Austrians throwing them food; a death march to Gunskirchen; starvation, disease, and cannibalism; liberation by United States troops; working for the U.S. military; capture by Soviets while traveling home; forced labor; escape; traveling to Budapest; reunion with his mother, sister, and uncle (his father had perished); changing his name due to antisemitism; marriage; his son's birth in 1955; participating in the 1956 uprising; escaping to Vienna; and emigration to the United States. Mr. F. discusses his mother's and sister's experiences; his career; sharing his story with his son; and losing his belief in God during the war, but raising his son as a Jew. He shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    F., George, 1925-
    Published
    Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1992
    Interview Date
    June 10, June 22, and July 31, 1992.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Abaújszántó (Hungary)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Cite As
    George F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2888). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
    Satenstein, Leon, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    3 videorecordings (1 hr., 58 min.; 1 hr., 12 min.; and 1 hr., 50 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Survivor-child relations.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Concentration camps Underground movements.
    Postwar effects.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Antisemitism Postwar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289097
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:27:00
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