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Peter S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3066) interviewed by Robert Krell,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3066

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Peter S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935, an only child. He recounts his family's long history in Hungary; gatherings with his large, extended family; his father's military service; his transfer to a slave labor battalion as Nazism prevailed; his mother's arrest in 1944; living with an aunt; placement, through family connections with the Red Cross and using false papers, in a home for Christian children of military families; hunger, cold, and frequent relocations during the winter 1944-1945 siege of Budapest; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with his mother's sister and father's brother (the happiest moment of his life); living with his paternal grandmother; his father's return; illegally entering Austria with his father; living in Vienna; learning his mother had not survived; antisemitic harassment; emigration to the United States; attending high school and college; military enlistment; earning a doctorate; his academic career; and emigration to Canada.
Author/Creator: S., Peter, 1935-
Published: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1984
Interview Date: July 11, 1984.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Vienna (Austria)
United States
Cite As: Peter S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3066). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Krell, Robert, interviewer.

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Orphanages--Hungary--Budapest. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Vienna (Austria) United States. Oral histories (document genres) S., Peter,--1935- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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/4290296
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290296

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