- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yehoshua S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1925, the second of four brothers. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; secretly participating in Zionist youth groups; antisemitic violence; his father's and older brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in March 1944; deportation with his mother, brothers, and aunt to Vienna; slave labor, first cleaning streets, then on nearby farms; a death march to Mauthausen; encountering his uncle; transfer to Gunskirchen; separation from his family; observing cannibalism; liberation by United States troops; finding his mother and brothers; their unexplained disappearance; hospitalization; traveling to Vienna; assistance from the Joint; returning home; reunion with his family; traveling to Budapest and Bucharest to emigrate to Palestine; meeting his wife; incarceration at ʻAtlit when attempting to enter Palestine; his daughter's birth in 1947; fighting in the Israel-Arab War; incarceration as a POW in Egypt; assistance from the Red Cross; and release after the war. Mr. S. discusses numbing himself in camps; his complete loss of belief in God; his family's emigration to Canada; not talking about his experiences for forty-five years; and now sharing them freely with his children.
- Author/Creator
- S., Yehoshua, 1925-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- May, 1991.
- Locale
- Egypt
Vienna (Austria)
Hungary
Debrecen (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Bucharest (Romania)
Palestine
ʻAtlit (Israel)
- Cite As
- Yehoshua S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3244). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Amit, Yoram, interviewer.
Tarsi, Anita, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
The specific date of the testimony is not known. It was recorded in May 1991.