- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Joseph H., who was born in Seredne, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1919, one of eleven children. He recounts his family's relative affluence; Hungarian occupation; obtaining an exemption from forced labor from a physician in Budapest due to ill health; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; the draft of two of his brothers into another battalion (they did not survive); a brief visit to his family in spring 1944; their deportation immediately afterwards (his parents, siblings, and their children were all killed); returning to his battalion; a death march from the Ukrainian front; briefly working on an Austrian farm; a death march to Mauthausen; wishing he would be killed; transfer to Gunskirchen; being assigned to dig a mass grave and bury prisoners; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; returning to Seredne; finding his home had been destroyed; leaving after receiving death threats; emigration to the United States; marriage; and the births of his children. Mr. H. notes nightmares resulting from his experiences, particularly when thinking about the killing of his siblings and their children.
- Author/Creator
- H., Joseph, 1919-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1994
- Interview Date
- June 15, 1994.
- Locale
- Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Serednje (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Joseph H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2733). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kaplan, Raymond, interviewer.
Denmark, Bernice, interviewer.
