- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frank F., who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; his mother's death when he was four; attending a state high school; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending school in Montreux in 1936, then in Antwerp and Brussels; visiting home in summer 1937; fleeing immediately upon learning he would be drafted; visiting his brother in London; German invasion when he was in Brussels; futile efforts to flee to France; observing the evacuation at Dunkerque; returning to Brussels; obtaining documents for Portugal; living in Porto; obtaining a Cuban visa in Lisbon; arriving in Havana; moving to New York; serving in the United States military in the Pacific; learning his parents had perished and his sister survived; and marrying a Hungarian camp survivor. He discusses life in Miskolc; the importance of luck to survival; and visiting Hungary and Auschwitz.
- Author/Creator
- F., Frank, 1917-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- August 7, 1990.
- Locale
- Hungary
Miskolc (Hungary)
Montreux (Switzerland)
Brussels (Belgium)
Antwerp (Belgium)
London (England)
Dunkerque (France)
Porto (Portugal)
Lisbon (Portugal)
Havana (Cuba)
- Cite As
- Frank F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1558). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Abramovitch, Ilana, interviewer.
Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
