Hugo P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-842) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Carole M. Shaffer-Koros,

Videotape testimony of Hugo P., who was born in Slivník, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of eight children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their successful businesses; an older brother's accidental death; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of the family businesses; his father's futile efforts to go to the United States (he was an American citizen); imprisonment with one brother for a month by the Hlinka guard; deportation with his family in 1940; separation from them upon arrival at Lublin; learning masonry; a German supervisor bringing him extra food; transfers to Buna/Monowitz, Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Waldlager; receiving extra food and privileged work assignments from friends; liberation from a train by United States troops in Poing; destroying German property for revenge; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; expressing anger to the U.S. ambassador in Prague that his family, U.S. citizens, could not emigrate before the war; returning home seeking relatives; learning no one had survived; and emigrating to the United States. Mr. P. discusses losing his belief in God in the camps; continuing anger at countries that blocked Jewish immigration before and during the war; nightmares about his youngest brother's death; and difficulties receiving reparation payments.