- Summary
- Videotape testimony of David R., who was born in Mukacheve, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1916, one of nine children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; emigration of siblings to the United States; cordial relations with non-Jews under the Czech regime; his father's death in 1920; working in a factory; Hungarian occupation; his mother's death in 1939; antisemitic harassment; moving to Budapest; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; hospitalization; returning to his unit; German invasion; transfer to Uz︠h︡horod, then Terka; building roads and bridges; sketching portraits of soldiers for extra bread; returning to Uz︠h︡horod; building tank barricades; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; painting signs for the Soviets; his brother's return in February 1945; learning his family had been deported; another brother's return; traveling to Irshava, then Budapest; illegal emigration to Palestine via Novi Sad, Belgrade, Zagreb, Trieste, and Milan; assistance from UNRRA; interception of the ship by the British; brief incarceration; living on a kibbutz; serving in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; marriage in 1949; his son's birth in 1951; and emigration to the United States to join his sister and two brothers in 1954.
- Author/Creator
- R., David, 1916-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1985
- Interview Date
- January 9, 1985.
- Locale
- Hungary
Austria
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Terka (Poland)
Irshava (Ukraine)
Novi Sad (Serbia)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Zagreb (Croatia)
Trieste (Italy)
Milan (Italy)
Palestine
- Cite As
- David R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-479). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Danford, Sue, interviewer.
