Ernest F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3044) interviewed by Robert Krell,

Videotape testimony of Ernest F., who was born in Makó, Hungary in 1923. He recounts his family's strong sense of Hungarian patriotism and identity; anti-Jewish laws; antisemitism beginning in 1938; attending law school in Cluj beginning in 1941; German occupation in 1944; returning home; ghettoization; being drafted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in June; digging trenches for the German army in the Carpathian area; random beatings and executions; being overrun by Soviet troops in Uzh︠h︡orod on October 27; capture by Soviets as an axis prisoner of war; escaping; traveling to Makó; learning his parents had been deported; attending university in Debrecen; learning his parents had survived; their return to Makó; his marriage in 1953; antisemitic incidents during the 1956 uprising; escaping to Vienna with his family in December; and emigration to Canada in April 1957. Mr. F. notes the importance of luck and personal religious beliefs to his survival.