- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in Ganichi, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1923. He recalls attending school in Sighet; cordial relations with non-Jews; belonging to Betar; his sister's and brother's emigration to Palestine; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; assignments in Mukacheve, Kisvr̀da, and Korice; returning home; learning his other sister and her children had been shot; he and his parents hiding during a round-up with help from their maid's husband; the same man surrendering them; ghettoization in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); transfer to Buna/Monowitz; a Polish Jew advising him to volunteer as a machinist, which saved his life; public hangings; hospitalization; treatment by a Jewish prisoner doctor; remaining with two friends who were brothers; sharing extra food with them; another friend praying daily; Allied bombings; transfer to Flossenbürg; Czechs throwing them food en route; and a death march to Dachau.
Mr. K. describes preventing his friend from committing suicide when his brother died; transfer to Allach; liberation by United States troops; recuperating in Plzen; traveling to Prague; reunion with his fiancě and her sister; traveling to Budapest; marriage; returning to Ganichi; antisemitic responses to his presence; living in Prague and Varnsdorf; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949 with assistance from HIAS. He notes sharing his story with his children and becoming religious.
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- Author/Creator
- K., Joseph, 1923?-
- Published
- Lawrence, N.Y. : Second Generation of Long Island, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 28, 1984.
- Locale
- Hungary
Ukraine
Mukacheve
Czechoslovakia
Ganichi (Ukraine)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Kisvárda (Hungary)
Košice (Slovakia)
Plzeň (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Budapest (Hungary)
Sighet (Romania)
Varnsdorf (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Joseph K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-611). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
