- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Tibor M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1918, the youngest of three sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1940; draft with his brothers into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; three months in Sátoraljaújhely; returning home; recall in 1942; reporting to Nagykáta; slave labor on the Russian front including Kiev and Seredyna-Buda; frequent beatings; learning one brother had been killed; Soviet partisans freeing them; separation from the partisans and re-capture; retreating with Axis troops; bombings by Soviets; improved treatment under the Wehrmacht in 1943; constructing Axis defenses in Warsaw and Góra Kalwaria beginning in May 1944; transfer to Flossenbürg in December 1944; a public hanging; transfer to a factory in Niederoderwitz in January; improved conditions due to working with German civilians; transfer to Leitmeritz, then Theresienstadt in April; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; traveling to Prague, Bratislava, then Budapest in June 1945; reunion with a brother, uncle and cousin; learning his father had perished; marriage to a non-Jew in December 1945; working in Vienna for UNRRA, then the Joint; his wife's conversion to Judaism; his daughter's birth; moving to Salzburg; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. Mr. M. discusses the kindness of Russian peasants; sabotaging the German effort; the importance to his survival of being with his friend, luck, and "stealing" from the Germans; a 1984 reunion in Hungary with battalion/camp friends; and not mentioning his experience for forty years, even to his children. He shows a plate from Flossenbürg and one from the hospital near Theresienstadt.
- Author/Creator
- M., Tibor, 1918-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 27, 1984.
- Locale
- Hungary
Ukraine
Budapest (Hungary)
Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
Nagykáta (Hungary)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Seredyna-Buda (Ukraine)
Góra Kalwaria (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Niederoderwitz (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Vienna (Austria)
Salzburg (Austria)
- Cite As
- Tibor M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-376). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinberg, Sally, interviewer.
