Sidney M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1591) interviewed by Dvora Mann

Videotape testimony of Sidney M., who was born in Chynadiyovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1921. He recalls his father's cattle business; working in Mukacheve; returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor in Bukovina; being moved several times between Poland and the Carpathian Mountains; once seeing his brother in another battalion; escaping in fall 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning his parents had been deported around Passover (they did not return); finding a cousin in Mukacheve; learning his brother was fighting with Soviet troops; visiting him; reunion with two more brothers, then a third; learning two sisters were in Sweden; traveling to Germany; living in a displaced persons camp near Munich; and emigrating to the United States in 1948 (his sisters had come in 1946). Mr. M. discusses establishing a successful butcher shop and marriage to a survivor, his sister's friend. He shows photographs.