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.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- October 15, 1990.
- Locale
- Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Chynadiĭovo (Ukraine)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
Carpathian Mountains
Munich (Germany) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Sidney M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1591). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295716
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