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Joseph N. Holocaust testimony (HVT-607)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-607

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Joseph N., who was born in Mukacheve, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) to a large, religious family. He recalls Mukacheve becoming part of Czechoslovakia after World War I; cordial relations with non-Jews; military draft in September 1938; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; conscription into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; serving in Szentkirályszabadja and Budapest; hiding briefly; rejoining his battalion in Budakeszi; transport to Buchenwald, then to Offenburg five days later; slave labor building railroads; transfer to Dresden; Allied bombings; a death march to Dachau; a German woman throwing them bread; stealing food and sharing it with a friend; liberation by United States troops; transfer to Plzeň; traveling to Prague, then Mukacheve; learning that a younger brother had perished in the Soviet Union; joining another brother in Teplice; and emigrating to Israel in 1949, then to the United States in 1964. Mr. N. discusses the importance of luck to his survival; sleep difficulties due to pervasive painful memories; sharing his story with his son; and his belief that proper revenge was not taken on the Germans.
    Author/Creator
    N., Joseph.
    Published
    Greenwich, Conn. : Second Generation of Westchester, 1983
    Interview Date
    November 20, 1983.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Austria
    Mukacheve (Ukraine)
    Budakeszi (Hungary)
    Szentkirályszabadja (Hungary)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Dresden (Germany)
    Plzeň (Czech Republic)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Teplice (Czech Republic)
    Israel
    Cite As
    Joseph N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-607). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hungarian.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hungarian
    Copies
    4 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (46 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Hiding.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294071
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
    This page:
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