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Sam T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-388) interviewed by Sara Weinberger,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-388

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sam T., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1927, the third of nine children. He recounts living in Berehove; his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; expropriation of his father's business; going to Budapest in order to work and send money home to his family; his older brother joining him; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew through a Zionist organization; smuggling food into and a few Jews out of the ghetto; hiding in a bunker during searches; obtaining his brother's release using false papers; food shortages; frequent bombings; liberation by Soviet troops; illegally entering Romania, then Italy with assistance from Zionists; reunion with his brother and one sister (his parents and five siblings did not survive); and emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: T., Sam, 1927?-
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
Interview Date: November 12, 1984.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Czechoslovakia
Berehove (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Romania
Italy
Cite As: Sam T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-388). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinberger, Sara, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
False papers.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Bunkers.
Postwar experiences.
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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Brothers. Zionists. Czechoslovakia. Berehove (Ukraine) Budapest (Hungary) Romania. Italy. Oral histories (document genres) T., Sam,--1927?-

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/4293745
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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